From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Mikael Djurfeldt" Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Guile + Boehm GC: First Remarks Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 09:35:32 +0200 Message-ID: <66e540fe0606010035l7fb513fg646da4c1d94920de@mail.gmail.com> References: <877j42r32u.fsf@laas.fr> <87irnmt0nk.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <87fyipcpbz.fsf@laas.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1149264511 26349 80.91.229.2 (2 Jun 2006 16:08:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 16:08:31 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 02 18:08:29 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FmCBy-0000zM-24 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Jun 2006 18:08:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FmCBx-0003ix-HJ for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Jun 2006 12:08:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FlhiQ-0002yI-Pw for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jun 2006 03:35:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FlhiQ-0002xs-15 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jun 2006 03:35:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FlhiP-0002xk-P0 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jun 2006 03:35:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [64.233.166.180] (helo=py-out-1112.google.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Flhob-0006Ng-RW for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jun 2006 03:41:57 -0400 Original-Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id b29so210467pya for ; Thu, 01 Jun 2006 00:35:32 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=hn46Zu7IPu2SGP7agLOV6xKleAldXdZf30zxw/gPmCsPbW3Es27s45s+kLFEaYB8JSjaUpVLUwBwFpgDGZnWJc9rE69iKAQPIcwMR5qnbbafobm70adxmOpCTrciOsHnqfsHvfKV4Hvkk3ehCSwODmlwtJqlQKmQkCjEgdvZ/qk= Original-Received: by 10.35.84.12 with SMTP id m12mr290462pyl; Thu, 01 Jun 2006 00:35:32 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.35.10.17 with HTTP; Thu, 1 Jun 2006 00:35:32 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: guile-devel@gnu.org, ludovic.courtes@laas.fr In-Reply-To: <87fyipcpbz.fsf@laas.fr> Content-Disposition: inline X-Google-Sender-Auth: 84c84cd5985168f5 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 12:05:35 -0400 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:5961 Archived-At: On 6/1/06, Ludovic Court=E8s wrote: > Yeah, and it's actively maintained and actively used. The mailing list > is active as well and Hans Boehm has been very helpful answering my > questions. Also, it's ported to a wide range of platforms, it's highly > tuned, it's designed to live with and take advantage of preemptive > multithreading, etc. It's the result of a decade of design and > implementation work, as can be seen from > http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/ . > > I believe we would never have sufficient manpower to compete with it > (and it seems that most other language runtime implementors arrived to > the same conclusion). Yet, as long as the current GC is more efficient (as measured by performance tests), there is no reason to switch, right? _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel