heap headers

Stephen Weeks MLton@sourcelight.com
Mon, 14 Aug 2000 12:10:13 -0700 (PDT)


> Doesn't size also need the header word to determine which fields are
> pointers for the traversal?  

Yes.

> (But, I guess that information must be around
> somewhere. 

Right.  The mark bit, OTOH, must be per object.