pending 64bit version of squeak
John M McIntosh
johnmci at mac.com
Fri Jul 4 18:42:04 UTC 2003
>
> Does the Mac provide easy useful access to the memory management unit?
> Using the MMU to handle the write barrier could allow an efficient
> background collector of oldspace. I think this is described in a paper
> by Appel from the mid eighties.
>
Also used by QKS in their Smalltalk on the mac for many many years.
However the Squeak VM has very little/none notion of MMU. This makes
it very portable, but it means
the logic above it is not feasible.
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