JavaScript:SpiderMonkey:GC Futures: Difference between revisions

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* Speed up collector
* Speed up collector
* Remove byte flag per thing design
* Remove byte flag per thing design
  * Bad cache effects of flags and things allocated from opposite ends of same arena
** Bad cache effects of flags and things allocated from opposite ends of same arena
  * Don't want generality of different thing-types allocated from same size class
** Don't want generality of different thing-types allocated from same size class
    * Can put finalizer or other index/info in the pool, not in each flag's low bits
*** Can put finalizer or other index/info in the pool, not in each flag's low bits
    * Compress flags to mark bit in bitmap?
*** Compress flags to mark bit in bitmap?
* Add new JNI-like (handles, "clothed" not "naked") global rooting API
* Add new JNI-like (handles, "clothed" not "naked") global rooting API
* Make old JS global rooting API be #ifdef JS_NAKED_GC_ROOTS (enabled at first)
* Make old JS global rooting API be #ifdef JS_NAKED_GC_ROOTS (enabled at first)
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