>
>2986FixGCTooSlow-di -- Dan Ingalls -- 18 November 2000
>Provide a margin of one byte per object to be used for forwarding 
>pointers at GC time.  Since fwd blocks are 8 bytes, this means an 
>absolute worst case of 8 passes to compact memory.  In most cases it 
>will be adequate to do compaction in a single pass.


PS In order to actually take advantage of 2986 you need a NEW VM. 
I'll be building a new macintosh VM tomorrow which you should all get 
by USA Thanksgiving.


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