Thanks guys. Indeed, I was totally confused. Maybe 'rootTable' is a little bit confusing... What do you think about changing at least the selector from image side (Smalltalk rootTable)? or it would be even more confusing?<br>
<br>Thanks!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Stefan Marr <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:squeak@stefan-marr.de">squeak@stefan-marr.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Hi:<br>
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On 26 Sep 2011, at 13:22, Andreas Raab wrote:<br>
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> The rootTable is used during incremental GC. Its contents are those objects in old space that are roots for objects in new space (see ObjectMemory>>beRootIfOld:). It has nothing to do with the (global) roots of the interpreter; in fact the root table is cleared right at the beginning of fullGC (see senders of #clearRootsTable). The global roots are explicitly enumerated in Interpreter>>markAndTraceInterpreterOops.<br>
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Not sure whether it is worthwhile to change such details, but I belief the standard terminology would be 'remembered set'. At least that is the typical name for recorded references between different object sets maintained separately, AFAIK.<br>
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And it could avoid confusion.<br>
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Stefan<br>
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