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One crucial part of making CRuby perform well with MMTk is making String, Array and MatchData not rely on obj_free
to free its underlying buffers allocated by xmalloc
. We introduced imemo:mmtk_strbuf
and imemo:mmtk_objbuf
as alternatives that are allocated in the GC heap. In theory, those changes only needs the GC to be able to allocate objects of any sizes, and the GC doesn't have to be MMTk.
It will be helpful to guard those code using special macros (and run-time checking variable, too, if we want them to be enabled/disabled at run time) instead of guarding them using #if USE_MMTK
and/or rb_mmtk_enabled_p()
. This will also make it possible to push those changes to the upstream once CRuby introduces arbitrary-size allocation.
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