status of gcj's boehm collector?

Fri Dec 7 13:58:00 GMT 2001

Boehm, Hans wrote:
>Depending on your application, hash synchronization may also have a
>substantial effect, since it allows pointerfree objects. Currently that's
>supported only on some Linux platforms in 3.1. 
>
Is it worth doing a fallback, portable hash-sync implementation that 
uses the platform's locks, for when we don't have an inline 
compare-and-swap?
regards
Bryce.