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List:       nedit-develop
Subject:    Re: Improved GC patch,
From:       "Bert Wesarg" <bert.wesarg () googlemail ! com>
Date:       2008-05-29 21:02:29
Message-ID: 36ca99e90805291402k4fe0b08g4d2b793460f05b15 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 7:15 AM, Tony Balinski <ajbj@free.fr> wrote:
> Quoting Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>:
>
>> Yes, in a full reference counted scheme, we could use copy-on-write
>> for the arrays, and therefore the unconditional copy for the iterator
>> is a no-op if the array will not be modified inside the iteration.
>>
>> How far ist your refcnt patch, do you need any help?
>
> To tell you the truth I haven't touched it for over a year! I never got as far
> as running it since it required changes throughout interpret.c and macro.c. I
> stopped working on it mainly because I couldn't track other changes in the
> source base at the same time.

Oh, I thought your statement 'I have worked on a ref-counted' meant
you do it right now ;-)

I will comeback to this patch, if I have time.

Bert

>
> Tony
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