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PMA garbage collection #36

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eamsden opened this issue Feb 28, 2023 · 0 comments

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eamsden commented Feb 28, 2023

One open question is the best GC / lifecycle management strategy for the PMA. This breaks down into a couple of sub-questions:

What are the roots we want to trace for the PMA and where do they live?
- (my preferred answer: they are the bytecode cache and Arvo-as-a-noun and they live in slots in the top stack frame of the NockStack in the PMA)
What GC strategy are we using for the PMA?
- (my preferred answer: mark-and-sweep. We are assuming that most objects here are long-lived and so mark-and-sweep with a free-list allocator is by far the most proven solution)

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