On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 7:27 AM, Patrick Walton <pwal...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> On 2/17/13 3:16 AM, smaug wrote: > >> Curious, how does GC manage nodes? Do we explicitly trace even those >> nodes which don't have js wrappers or do >> we just use GC for everything in Rust? >> > > All the nodes in Servo have JS wrappers at the moment, and their lifetimes > are managed by the JS garbage collector. The JS garbage collector traces > all nodes. The Rust garbage collector isn't really involved as far as DOM > nodes are concerned. It's pretty important that we handle cycles through JS and Rust in a clean way without having to write unsafe code. Ideally we could do it without having to write any special code. What prevents us from integrating Rust and JS GC so it Just Works (tm)? Rob -- Wrfhf pnyyrq gurz gbtrgure naq fnvq, “Lbh xabj gung gur ehyref bs gur Tragvyrf ybeq vg bire gurz, naq gurve uvtu bssvpvnyf rkrepvfr nhgubevgl bire gurz. Abg fb jvgu lbh. Vafgrnq, jubrire jnagf gb orpbzr terng nzbat lbh zhfg or lbhe freinag, naq jubrire jnagf gb or svefg zhfg or lbhe fynir — whfg nf gur Fba bs Zna qvq abg pbzr gb or freirq, ohg gb freir, naq gb tvir uvf yvsr nf n enafbz sbe znal.” [Znggurj 20:25-28] _______________________________________________ dev-servo mailing list dev-servo@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-servo
