overhead of reflection info

Tue Feb 24 16:42:00 GMT 2004

>>>>> "Adam" == Adam Megacz <adam@megacz.com> writes:

Adam> Ah, interesting. Since it is only called in the rare case, could I
Adam> just have it assume that every word of the object is a pointer in
Adam> order to play it safe?
Yes, with some changes in boehm.cc you should be able to set things up
to do a completely conservative scan. Or you could modify the
compiler to crash if it encounters a class for which it can't generate
a bitmap descriptor.
Tom