Reply To: Garbage collectors

I have rarely seen GCs use tag on pointers, besides Azul Systems’ GCs (which trap based on pointers loaded), can you refer to some literature on this?

I think you may have confused stack barriers with read/write barriers. Stack barriers causes halts if the thread returns past a point on the stack. This is used so that another thread can safely scan the earlier portion of the stack; which will reduce the time the thread has to be halted for stack scanning.

What will the best way to do state points? My current plot is a store to a thread local byte for which can get its permission removed when the thread should be halted. This is not ideal since it would require a 1-cycle delay for the case of a function immediately calling another.