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From: Xavier Leroy <Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr>
To: Jon Harrop <jonathandeanharrop@googlemail.com>
Cc: 'Damien Doligez' <damien.doligez@inria.fr>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] How does OCaml update references when values are moved by the GC?
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 11:25:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CCFE704.7080400@inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1033013046.78315.1288458970997.JavaMail.root@zmbs4.inria.fr>

Jon Harrop wrote:
> I was hoping for a little more detail, of course. :-)
> 
> How is the mapping from old to new pointers stored?

With forwaring pointers.  Just take 10 minutes to familiarize yourself
with the standard stop&copy algorithm and everything will be clear:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheney's_algorithm

- Xavier Leroy


      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-11-02 10:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <418632253.26199.1288302511712.JavaMail.root@zmbs1.inria.fr>
2010-10-29  7:47 ` Damien Doligez
2010-10-30 11:14   ` Elias Gabriel Amaral da Silva
2010-10-30 17:15   ` Jon Harrop
2010-10-30 17:38     ` Michael Ekstrand
2010-10-30 20:40       ` Jon Harrop
2010-11-03  9:49         ` Richard Jones
2010-10-30 20:40   ` Jon Harrop
     [not found]   ` <1033013046.78315.1288458970997.JavaMail.root@zmbs4.inria.fr>
2010-11-02 10:25     ` Xavier Leroy [this message]

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