[L2Ork-dev] GSOC2021 query and proposal

[Jonathan Wilkes]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 9:05 PM Meet Agrawal <agrawalmeet91 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm Meet Agrawal from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology
> I'm looking forward to work on the project -
>   Use ref-counting to handle object lifetimes
> As far as I've considered the project it relates to programming crashing due to some dereferencing of pointers whose memory access on heap has already been lost
> I've recently worked out on a project for Garbage collection routine in C++
> Using the mark-sweep algorithm we can actually create up a table where we trace back a pointer to its parent and if the parent is set deactive in the program we free that further allocated space and set the pointer to null
>
> I want to get a further view over what the project exactly wants an implementation for.
> Thank You

Hello Meet Agrawal,

Welcome!

Yes, the basic problem is that of accessing memory which has already been freed.

However, Purr Data is a realtime program. That means we measure
worst-case performance
times of deterministic behavior. Any solution to the problem must take
this into account.

-Jonathan

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