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22:31:21
Bike
dump-module goes through a basic "string". does that behave badly with non ascii characters? i don't know why a module would print any, though
3:40:59
drmeister
Bike: With DWARF - do you recall how to get the start and end of a function given a sectioned address?
3:57:11
drmeister
I'm still working on backtraces. I'm going full on DWARF and eliminating some of the old ways I would dig out symbols.
5:29:20
drmeister
::notify Bike The future branch is now open for business. On bigmac you use the llvm in /opt/llvm-project-tot. bclasp builds but cclasp fails in inline.lisp. If backtraces are still not up to snuff in slime we can switch things over to use DWARF to interrogate the stackmaps and get rid of the old stackmap recording/searching mechanism.
6:37:29
drmeister
::notify Bike The next release of MMTk will be coming out in two weeks and Steve Blackburn expects we should have immix within 4 to 6 weeks. He's interested in developing conservative GC that looks like the following (I'm posting a link to one of his papers - I haven't read it - but will soon).
7:22:46
no-defun-allowed
Is RC Immix the only incremental Immix? I guess the numbers can't lie about how they optimised deferred refcounting, but you now have the cycle-breaking full collections to fear, in place of your usual major GC.