Wwwwow. The Boehm-Demers-Weiser GC can't move objects because, you know, C is gnarly and you can't really trust anything to update pointers in-place. But what i

Wwwwow. The Boehm-Demers-Weiser GC can't move objects because, you know, C is gnarly and you can't really trust anything to update pointers in-place. But what if you could? This work seems to indicate that you could have a compacting collector with arbitrary C programs, given the extra hooks they added to Linux (http://lwn.net/Articles/392307/ http://lwn.net/Articles/392307/). Azul continues to impress.