[Mono-list] managed question

Lloyd Dupont lloyd@galador.net
Mon, 26 Nov 2001 07:24:01 +0100


i found this amazing !
anayway, if it is the way life it, i guess i have to with it...

Fergus Henderson wrote:

> On 24-Nov-2001, Lloyd Dupont <lloyd@galador.net> wrote:
> 
>>i wonder how the runtime could change all reference to a variable, did 
>>he really do this ?
>>
> 
> That's implementation dependent... but for some implementations,
> yes, the garbage collector will move objects around in memory
> and update all the references to those objects to point to the
> new locations.
> 
>