Re: GC and stack marking

[Paul Eggert]

On 05/19/2014 12:14 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > >
> > >We could have the garbage collector treat purify-flag specially, I suppose.
> I'm not sure I understand the suggestion.  Can you elaborate?

I was thinking of a horrible hack where the GC knows about purify-flag, 
so that when you set purify-flag to nil the GCC immediately frees the 
object that purify-flag used to contain, and that we make purify-flag 
special in this way.

I hope there's a better idea out there somewhere.  Maybe we should get 
rid of the hash-table purify-flag hack, for example.  I'm just thinking 
out loud here.