This page is for notes regarding a generic conservative-GC API that we want to insert between {SpiderMonkey/Tamarin/XPCOM/other application code} and GC implementations (MMgc/jegc/spam/whatever).

Very preliminary.

—jorendorff 11:11, 28 March 2008 (PDT)

API areas

Heap setup/teardown
Allocation
Write barrier
GC
Rooting
Synchronization/concurrency
Tracing (SpiderMonkey 1.8 JSAPI features need this)

And if we are so lucky as to live that long:

JIT (emitting a write barrier)

GC API

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