On 5/14/19 3:31 PM, Hamad Ahmed wrote: > Should not be too hard to put in? Gcc does know when > a variable won’t be used anymore. So you coul compile with something > like -fgarbage so it inserts an extra assembly instruction > that zeros out those registers containing pointers to these > dead variables. Possibly, but there are several passes of dead code elimination and each time the zeroing instruction would be deleted. Bohem is a conservative GC, not a precise one, and you have to live with the consequences of that. -- Andrew Haley Java Platform Lead Engineer Red Hat UK Ltd. <https://www.redhat.com> https://keybase.io/andrewhaley EAC8 43EB D3EF DB98 CC77 2FAD A5CD 6035 332F A671
