A class carries the collector header when any class in its hierarchy can
be on a cycle, so instances of classes whose own fields hold nothing
cycle-capable were buffered as candidates and walked by every level. Such
an object has no traced children and is never on a cycle.
Their descriptors now name scr_cyc_no_children, and they are allocated
with buf set to SCR_CYC_ACYCLIC. That value has the buffered bit set, so
a release that leaves the object alive makes no call; scr_cyc_is_buffered
is false for it, and an emitted death or publication mark takes the object
out of a candidate buffer only when buf is below -1. A pass that walks
such an object as a child restores the value when it survives.
Chris Tate
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