[Mono-dev] Walking all managed objects

[Miguel de Icaza]

> i'll gladly go with mono_gchandle_new_weakref solution you mentioned,  
> if you think there is no real overhead in our use case.
> Basically i would need to know that mono_gchandle_new_weakref has no  
> noticable overhead when the primary use case is quickly allocating  
> temporary memory (Those are always wrapper objects containing 8 bytes  
> of data) and letting it be garbage collected shortly after.

If you are only wrapping 8 bytes of data, have you considering using
structs, and declaring those variables on the method entry point?   That
would allocate those objects on the stack.