- // locks when updating an old-generation thunk. These
- // mini-mut-lists are moved onto the respective gen->mut_list at
- // each GC.
+ // locks when updating an old-generation thunk. This also lets us
+ // keep track of which closures this CPU has been mutating, so we
+ // can traverse them using the right thread during GC and avoid
+ // unnecessarily moving the data from one cache to another.