[MLton-devel] GC question

[Stephen Weeks]

> The point is that the copying phase never reads to-space and writes to it
> sequentially, so the compaction can go to disk.  This doesn't need any
> of the fancy compaction stuff, but it seems like it might buy something.

I don't get your point.  What do you mean by the "copying phase"?  If
you mean the breadth-first Cheney-style copying collection, then you
are wrong when you say it never reads to-space, since it uses to-space
to hold the breadth-first queue.

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