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| author | Araq <rumpf_a@web.de> | 2013-11-25 13:06:11 +0100 |
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| committer | Araq <rumpf_a@web.de> | 2013-11-25 13:06:11 +0100 |
| commit | 4855055bca7f5b2900ac15ce0e5cae90c22fa7fa (patch) | |
| tree | 19794ccc8ae9367fa94e8808021f1b313e431d65 /doc/gc.txt | |
| parent | 52d1a637b95f7cea95ad6e9591a941ef1be113cb (diff) | |
| parent | b893bd074f9e90f517c3f84037f92f89ab6fbad3 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/Araq/Nimrod
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diff --git a/doc/gc.txt b/doc/gc.txt index 854f9ce2a..13498afaa 100644 --- a/doc/gc.txt +++ b/doc/gc.txt @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Introduction This document describes how the GC works and how to tune it for (soft) `realtime systems`:idx:. -The basic algorithm is *Deferrent Reference Counting* with cycle detection. +The basic algorithm is *Deferred Reference Counting* with cycle detection. References on the stack are not counted for better performance (and easier C code generation). The GC **never** scans the whole heap but it may scan the delta-subgraph of the heap that changed since its last run. |