Subj : Re: Does Spidermonkey use a copying garbage collector?
To   : "J. Wilson" <developir@yahoo.com>
From : Brendan Eich <brendan@meer.net>
Date : Wed May 21 2003 10:06 am

J. Wilson wrote:

>I was wondering about the rationale for passing the address of the 
>pointer to an object to JS_AddRoot() and friends instead of just 
>the object pointer itself.
>Is this because Spidermonkey uses a copying garbage collector?
>

One reason is to allow for the possibility, but SpiderMonkey has no 
copying collector yet.

Another reason is to allow the root to be first class -- it's a 
reference, not a particular object, so it may point at various objects 
(or other things, if it's a jsval) over the lifetime of its registration 
as a root.

/be

.