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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Guile-commits] GNU Guile branch, stable-2.0, updated. v2.0.0-124-g5f0d295
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 19:45:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874o6rdooc.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3hbarf4mz.fsf@unquote.localdomain> (Andy Wingo's message of "Fri, 25 Mar 2011 19:15:32 +0100")

Hi,

Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> writes:

> On Fri 25 Mar 2011 18:58, ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> "Andy Wingo" <wingo@pobox.com> writes:
>>
>>>     bdw-gc 6.8 compatibility (hopefully)
>>
>> Aarrrgh.  The intent has always been to support 7.x only (bdw-gc.h has
>> compatibility stuff for historical reasons), which is already enough
>> work.  ;-)  The README and various responses we posted in the past are
>> consistent.
>>
>> WDYT?

[...]

> In short, it doesn't much matter to me :)  We can program to the 7.x
> interfaces, and if people want to use old buggy software, then we tell
> them to upgrade.  But if it keeps working, no problem, right?

Well, I think it’s an additional burden on us.  GC bugs are hard to test
and debug as you know ;-), so if we add more variability, then we may
get stuck in a GC debugging loop.

Not to mention that 6.8 is slower.

Thanks,
Ludo’.



  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-25 18:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <E1Q2qM7-0003oP-Oe@vcs-noshell.in.savannah.gnu.org>
2011-03-25 17:58 ` [Guile-commits] GNU Guile branch, stable-2.0, updated. v2.0.0-124-g5f0d295 Ludovic Courtès
2011-03-25 18:15   ` Andy Wingo
2011-03-25 18:45     ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2011-03-27 15:23     ` Ludovic Courtès
2011-03-28 20:17       ` Neil Jerram
2011-03-28 20:45         ` Ludovic Courtès
2011-03-28 22:06           ` Neil Jerram
2011-03-28 21:01 Mike Gran
2011-03-29 11:59 ` Ludovic Courtès

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