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From: Nic <nferrier@tapsellferrier.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Guile + Boehm GC
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 14:41:59 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87u09rn9l4.fsf@tapsellferrier.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87hd5rgafd.fsf@laas.fr> (Ludovic's message of "Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:05:42 +0100")

ludovic.courtes@laas.fr (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) writes:

> Hi all,
>
> Integration of Boehm's GC within Guile was discussed at length in the
> past, especially back in 2000.  Apparently, Han-Wen even got to the
> point of having an preliminary implementation of Guile that uses it[0].
> Unfortunately the URL mentioned there is no longer valid.
>
> Han-Wen: Could you summarize your conclusions and maybe make your code
> available as well?
>
> More generally, do people (still) believe that Guile should use BGC?
> Back then, there was apparently some consensus that it would be a Good
> Thing.

I looked at this about 2 years ago. My goodness it was complicated.

I thought that there was a good argument for overhauling the objects
and the GC together. I thought it would be particularly interesting if
glib objects were used as guile's objects. This wouldn't make
overhauling the GC any easier (except by removing cruft) but it would
be a worthwhile exercise in reduction IMHO.


Nic Ferrier


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  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-21 14:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-21 14:05 Guile + Boehm GC Ludovic Courtès
2006-03-21 14:41 ` Nic [this message]
2006-03-21 15:29 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2006-03-21 17:23   ` Ludovic Courtès
2006-03-21 17:44     ` Han-Wen Nienhuys

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