On 3/14/2012 9:24, clipka wrote:
> So far, so good. But how does the GC know how long each chunk of
> garbage-to-collect is?

It's using basically the same kind of information that's already in each 
object to point to a vtable. If the first word of each object points to a 
vtable, you stick the information once in the vtable about how big it is and 
where the pointers are.

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   People tell me I am the counter-example.

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