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Quote: with garbage collection and debugging, a call can modify live local variables; C-- can mark parameters and variables as invariant across calls
Topic:
memory management by garbage collection
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In the presence of garbage collection and debugging, … a compacting garbage collector might modify pointers saved … [p. 24] To eliminate this penalty, the front end … The run-time system and debugger may not change … If variables will not be changed by a … using mostly-copying collectors [refs] or non-compacting collectors [ref] can safely mark all variables as invariant across calls. Google-1 Google-2
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Topic: memory management by garbage collection (116 items)