BTSweeper.java

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package org.mmtk.plan.refcount.backuptrace;

import org.mmtk.plan.refcount.RCHeader;
import org.mmtk.policy.ExplicitFreeListSpace;
import org.mmtk.vm.VM;

import org.vmmagic.pragma.*;
import org.vmmagic.unboxed.*;

/**
 * This class implements the thread-local core functionality for a transitive
 * closure over the heap graph.
 */
@Uninterruptible
public final class BTSweeper extends ExplicitFreeListSpace.Sweeper {

  private final BTDecMarked sdm = new BTDecMarked();

  public boolean sweepCell(ObjectReference object) {
    if (!RCHeader.isMarked(object)) {
      VM.scanning.scanObject(sdm, object);
      return true;
    } else {
      RCHeader.clearMarked(object);
    }
    return false;
  }
}