Can you explicitly free an object without calling the GC?

[Senaka Fernando <se...@gmail.com>]

Hi all,

Can you explicitly free an object without calling the GC? It seems that
Parrot's GC interface exposes methods to free a specific object instead of
getting the GC to collect it. Does Harmony have something similar?

Regards,
Senaka

Re: Can you explicitly free an object without calling the GC?

[Alexei Fedotov <al...@gmail.com>]

Senaka,
This is a good question.

Harmony GC interface does not allow freeing objects. From the other
side if JIT is able to determine boundaries of the object life cycle
and bound them to a stack, it allocates objects on the stack, so they
are freed automatically. This is called escape analysis and should be
out of scope for now.

Thanks.

On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 8:39 PM, Senaka Fernando <se...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>  Can you explicitly free an object without calling the GC? It seems that
>  Parrot's GC interface exposes methods to free a specific object instead of
>  getting the GC to collect it. Does Harmony have something similar?
>
>  Regards,
>  Senaka
>



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With best regards,
Alexei