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Would it be usable for GCs?

Would it be usable for GCs?

Posted Nov 5, 2012 15:47 UTC (Mon) by renox (subscriber, #23785)
Parent article: Many more words on volatile ranges

I think that VM-aware GCs would be a nice feature ( http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2391 ) but the patch to implement the needed part in Linux was rejected, so I wonder if volatile ranges would be usable for this?

IMHO no, but I'm not 100% sure.


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