> This would only make things more complicated since then the primitives
> would have to start parallel native threads working on the same object
> memory.
> The problem with native threads is that the current object memory  
> is not
> designed to work with multiple independent mutator threads. There  
> are GC
> algorithms which work with parallel threads, but AFAIK they all have
> quite some overhead relative to the single-thread situation.
[...]

Dear Hans-Martin,

Thanks for your clear explanation. It is really instructive.

Regards,
Alexandre

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