a bit flip is not writing?
Also do traces not have to work atomically? The program needs to stop, you can’t have it check roots as it runs.
I’ll admit I am no GC researcher with ph.D experience, but your comment makes it seem you aren’t either.
Also do traces not have to work atomically? The program needs to stop, you can’t have it check roots as it runs.
I’ll admit I am no GC researcher with ph.D experience, but your comment makes it seem you aren’t either.
Atomics are handy in a parallel/multi-core tracing collector, but IME pointer chasing in tracing somehow manages to cover the time it takes to do atomic operations.