From: <dsmich@roadrunner.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>, "Andreas Rottmann" <a.rottmann@gmx.at>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: BDW-GC branch updated
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 14:28:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090904182805.C0FYQ.518079.root@cdptpa-web20-z02> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eiqmmy12.fsf@delenn.lan>
---- Andreas Rottmann <a.rottmann@gmx.at> wrote:
> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> > Also, there are definite benefits to using a conservative GC for
> > libguile, given how tightly it can be integrated with C (e.g., [2]).
> >
> My main concern is/was that by moving to a conservatice GC, and
> _consequently changing the API of libguile to assume a conservative GC_
> (as outlined in [2]), you get third code relying on that as well. This
> would make it effectively impossible to ever switch back to a precise GC
> without potentially breaking all third-party code using the libguile
> API.
Isn't the current gc in guile already conservative?
-Dale
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-04 18:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-18 11:54 BDW-GC branch updated Ludovic Courtès
2009-08-18 12:19 ` Andreas Rottmann
2009-08-18 13:18 ` Ludovic Courtès
2009-09-04 17:15 ` Andreas Rottmann
2009-09-04 18:28 ` dsmich [this message]
2009-09-05 14:45 ` Ludovic Courtès
2009-09-10 20:09 ` Neil Jerram
2009-09-10 21:33 ` Ludovic Courtès
2009-09-16 1:11 ` Andreas Rottmann
2009-09-17 17:45 ` Neil Jerram
2009-09-05 17:22 ` Andy Wingo
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