[Mono-list] Is there a mechanism to precompile a method?

[Michael Meeks]

On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 17:43, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> One thing I wanted to explore in the past (but there has been no need to
> do so far) is to use implicit reference counting with cycle detection
> for the GC engine.  It uses some extra 32 bits of memory per object
> allocated, but it gives you the predictability you are looking for.

	It's an amusing situation where for a real time machine it doesn't so
much matter how slow the mechanism is as long as it's deterministic :-)

	As one totally ignorant of the issues - it seems that if people want
real time sections, could there not be an IFreeable interface - since I
assume each object is separately heap allocated; such that it would be
actually freed, and leave dangling invalid pointers ;-) Unsafe in the
extreme of course, but certainly a quick solution. Of course, supporting
that interface in the future with a different GC would perhaps be more
difficult, so it's a fast ugly fix.

	Then again, I imagine people want GC and also determinism, which means
cycle detection, hmm ...

	Regards,

		Michael.

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