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rayiner on May 13, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Introducing the WebKit FTL JIT

If you use a block a structured heap, which is convenient for other reasons (GHC uses one), you just leak parts of entire semispaces. :)

pcwalton on May 13, 2014 [–]

Not if you compact, which you can't (fully) do if you have stuck pointers in a conservative collector.

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