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Re:Introducing the WebKit FTL JIT by rayiner on Tuesday May 13, 2014 @07:54PM (#7741344)
If you use a block a structured heap, which is convenient for other reasons (GHC uses one), you just leak parts of entire semispaces. :)
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Re:Introducing the WebKit FTL JIT by pcwalton on Tuesday May 13, 2014 @07:56PM (#7741350)
Not if you compact, which you can't (fully) do if you have stuck pointers in a conservative collector.
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