From: Mike Gran <spk121@yahoo.com>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>,
"20907@debbugs.gnu.org" <20907@debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#20907: [PATCH] Manual bug for scm_gc_protect_object
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 18:34:28 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1832189928.562370.1441218868076.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h9nc1ytx.fsf@netris.org>
On Wednesday, September 2, 2015 11:06 AM, Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> wrote:
>Would it help to replace all uses of the term "scan" with "mark", in
>connection with garbage collection? In the papers I've read on GC,
>"mark" is the word I usually see, and it seems much clearer to me,
>because anyone who knows the basics of GC knows that "marking" is needed
>to prevent an object from being freed, whereas "scanning" could mean
>anything.
That would help, I think. I guess I was associating "scan" with
the "sweep" part of mark and sweep.
Thanks very much for the clarification.
Mike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-02 18:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-26 23:00 bug#20907: [PATCH] Manual bug for scm_gc_protect_object Mike Gran
2015-09-02 1:59 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-09-02 12:08 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-09-02 15:36 ` Mike Gran
2015-09-02 16:16 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-09-02 16:52 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-09-02 17:12 ` Mike Gran
2015-09-02 18:05 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-09-02 18:34 ` Mike Gran [this message]
2016-06-24 6:58 ` Andy Wingo
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