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| author | Taylan Kammer <taylan.kammer@gmail.com> | 2026-08-25 22:11:46 +0200 |
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| committer | Taylan Kammer <taylan.kammer@gmail.com> | 2026-08-25 22:11:46 +0200 |
| commit | 6c763c4a27bcb58281568937b9ded714af70b9da (patch) | |
| tree | 3ec52a052819934453fde2346ba710545763508a | |
| parent | 9f5aa98ac1034030788ae24c9df506c88216c907 (diff) | |
One last addition, hopefully.
| -rw-r--r-- | notes/260825-code-gc.md | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/notes/260825-code-gc.md b/notes/260825-code-gc.md index b2736af..d1975cc 100644 --- a/notes/260825-code-gc.md +++ b/notes/260825-code-gc.md @@ -339,3 +339,9 @@ Would be used in two ways: recursive free won't touch it. Something like that would work, I think. + +But need to think about pointer equality as well, which breaks unless +we mask off the "foreign" bits of pointers as part of equality check, +making equality more than a single CPU instruction, which is kinda +annoying. Then again, a similar issue applies to the rest of the 8 +bits used for GC metadata. Oh well, I'll figure it out. |