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[Caml-list] heap profiling

Fabrice Le Fessant
- Jean-Christophe Filliatre
  - Fabrice Le Fessant
- Norman Ramsey
- Christian Lindig
- Christian Lindig
  - Damien Doligez

Date:	-- (:)
From:	Damien Doligez <Damien.Doligez@i...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] expose GC roots as weak Obj.t pointers?

On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 10:02 AM, Christian Lindig wrote:

> Would it be possible (in principle) to expose the GC roots as an array
> of weak Obj.t pointers? This would allow to walk the heap from Caml
> using Obj.
>
>     Gc.roots:   unit -> Obj.t Weak.t

I think this should be possible.  Of course, you wouldn't want to 
examine
this data too often because it would prevent the GC from reclaiming
any memory.

-- Damien

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