Write barriers might not fix thread registration since you need to scan the stack

Posted 2022-12-12

Not much else to say rn.

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7 bugs fixed
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- init differs from ctor call for structs
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What Adam is working on

I've written yet another text layout thing... and I think I've finally done it good enough this time. More next week hopefully.

Then DConf Online 2022 on Saturday. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSefrU-3WJ0

A note on write barriers and thread registration

Someone pointed out a problem with the write barriers not requiring thread registration anymore: you still need to know where their stacks are to scan them. Bleh.

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