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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





  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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