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From: sxm@philabs.philips.com (Sandeep Mehta)
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Subject: 29 bit resource id and garbage collection
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Date: 1 Nov 89 23:09:28 GMT
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This question (or part of it) may be outdated depending on the current
state of the X11 protocol. 

It seems that the server allocates 29-bit resource identifiers to
simplify implementation in languages which have garbage collection built
in, according to the orig ACM TOG paper.

Could someone explain how the resource id size, or not using the hi bits
affects GC. This question probably has more to do with GC in
languages.

thanks in advance.

sandeep 
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