From: Chris Lemmer-Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
To: Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be>
Cc: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>, guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: thoughts on targetting the web
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2021 10:14:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lf74ei74.fsf@dustycloud.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a6d5ce2a769982ad52a05948247d3ee2c00d14a4.camel@telenet.be>
Maxime Devos writes:
> Andy Wingo schreef op za 19-06-2021 om 22:20 [+0200]:
>> 5. Garbage collection. *We should re-use the host GC*. Although it
>> would be possible to manage a heap in linear memory, that has
>> retention problems due to cycles between the Guile heap and the JS
>> heap.
>
> I could be mistaken (and I haven't written any ECMAScript in a long time),
> but I believe ECMAScript doesn't have guardians, gc hooks, weak vectors and
> (key, value, key-value) weak hash tables. So, if we re-use the host GC,
> that would mean those GC things cannot be used right?
>
> In that case, it may be a good idea to raise an error at compile time
> if some code tries to use these anyways. (I've been using guardians
> and weak vectors lately.)
>
> Greetings,
> Maxime
Weakmaps are a thing these days I think:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/WeakMap
Weak vectors, not so sure. (Never used them myself anyway.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-20 14:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-19 20:20 thoughts on targetting the web Andy Wingo
2021-06-19 22:24 ` Chris Lemmer-Webber
2021-10-06 14:53 ` Christine Lemmer-Webber
2021-06-20 10:02 ` Maxime Devos
2021-06-20 14:14 ` Chris Lemmer-Webber [this message]
2021-06-20 20:55 ` Maxime Devos
2021-10-06 23:34 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2021-10-07 1:37 ` Nala Ginrut
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