vague recollections

Stephen Weeks MLton@sourcelight.com
Wed, 19 Sep 2001 17:05:59 -0700


> Yesterday  before  going  to  sleep  I  tried to remember more details of the
> discussion on re-sizing the heap after a save-world.  The only guess I  could
> come  up  with  is  that  it  was really the stack, not the heap that we were
> talking about.  In the  old  days  (SMLC)  we  didn't  have  stack  re-sizing
> (although clearly we had to be able to walk through the stack for roots at GC
> time).  If the stack was in a fixed memory location  then  perhaps  that  was
> what was going on.

This sounds vaguely familiar :-).  I do remember having to worry about making
sure that we could load the stack into the right place.  Anyways, that was over
2 years ago, ...