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From: Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
To: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe@math.utah.edu>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: a note on garbage collection
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:17:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <873a6dju0s.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CMM.0.94.0.1253724991.beebe@sunburst.math.utah.edu> (Nelson H. F. Beebe's message of "Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:56:32 -0600 (MDT)")

"Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe@math.utah.edu> writes:

> This list has recently carried discussion of garbage collection, and
> version 1.9.3 includes the Boehm-Demers-Weiser garbage collector.
>
> There is newly-published paper that suggests there may be a better
> alternative:
>
> 	Precise Garbage Collection for C
> 	Jon Rafkind, Adam Wick, John Regehr & Matthew Flatt
> 	http://www.cs.utah.edu/~regehr/papers/ismm15-rafkind.pdf
>
> This is an outgrowth of Adam Wick's 2006 Ph.D. thesis from the
> University of Utah, "Magpie: Precise Garbage Collection for C".

Hi Nelson,

Thanks for flagging this.  I wonder if it is related to the PLT GC
change that we discussed a couple of weeks ago here:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2009-08/msg00138.html

Regards,
        Neil




  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-23 20:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-23 16:56 a note on garbage collection Nelson H. F. Beebe
2009-09-23 20:17 ` Neil Jerram [this message]
2009-09-23 22:37 ` Ludovic Courtès

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