grin/docs/MemoryManagement.md

Memory management

Heap pointer

• do not use register pinning to store heap pointer
• instead always pass heap pointer as a function argument
  • each thread has own heap and heap pointer
  • save heap pointer to a global variable when calling foreign function

Compile time garbage collection

ASAP: As Static As Possible memory management

related: Dead data elimination in A modern back-end for a dependently typed language

Sample Project

Sample project for LLVM stack map based GC.