On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 10:13 +0530, Ranjit Mathew wrote: > On 10/25/05, Mike Stump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > First off, several fields are marked "skip", though the > > > documents seem to strongly discourage this. For example, > > > see ssa_use_operand_t in tree.h. > > > > Was this a question? :-) Skipping is anti-social and decreases the > > flexibility of the software, that said, one can skip any field that > > doesn't need to be walked without any technical problems, as that > > field doesn't need to be walked. > > Thanks. Though I didn't frame the question properly (sorry), > I wanted to know why we would want some fields of some > nodes to be skipped. Is it because: > > 1. we want to reduce time spent in the GC, >
Some people do this, but it doesn't really help, and will cause problems later if we ever change the type of GC we have.
