petdance/scratch — Issue #1271: Deprecate "constant" PMCs.
Author: petdance
Created: 2011-11-01 05:39:46+00:00
State: open
Labels: gc, Pri-critical, rfc, Sev-fatal

Hello.
Currently "constant" PMC/STRINGs are poor-man-generational-gc-old-objects. They are causing a lot of pain because requies very special handling on any stage of GC implementor (e.g. me). I propose to deprecate them all together.

This (probably) doesn't require deprecation cycle due pure internal usage of such "zombie PMCs".

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Bacek

Originally http://trac.parrot.org/parrot/ticket/1875