This appears to have been lost in the mail...

This code lets us pay an incrementalGC+tenure instead of a fullGC on a
root table overflow. (for a huge VM gain on any code that continiously
overflows the root table, like some code I'm writing.)

Can it be added into the current virtual machine?

Scott


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Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 01:10:11 -0700
From: Andreas Raab <Andreas.Raab at gmx.de>
To: 'Scott A Crosby' <crosby at qwes.math.cmu.edu>
Subject: RE: GC root table overflows.

> Would this not be a pretty simple change? If so, then I guess
> I'll wait for/if this to be a problem, then do it. Thanks.

Simple enough - see attachment ;-)

Cheers,
  - Andreas
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