From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: lilydev@muurbloem.xs4all.nl (Han-Wen Nienhuys) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Guile + Boehm GC: First Remarks Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 01:17:29 +0000 (UTC) Organization: LilyPond Software Design Message-ID: References: <877j42r32u.fsf@laas.fr> <87irnmt0nk.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> Reply-To: hanwen@lilypond.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1149124675 25821 80.91.229.2 (1 Jun 2006 01:17:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 01:17:55 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 01 03:17:54 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 1Flbov-0006Nv-70 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Jun 2006 03:17:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Flbou-0000ED-FH for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 May 2006 21:17:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Flbok-0000Ae-0o for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 May 2006 21:17:42 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Flboi-00009q-Q3 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 May 2006 21:17:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Flboi-00009l-L2 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 May 2006 21:17:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1Flbur-00063Y-2Z for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 May 2006 21:24:01 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Flbof-0006MG-7s for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jun 2006 03:17:37 +0200 Original-Received: from muurbloem.xs4all.nl ([213.84.26.127]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 01 Jun 2006 03:17:37 +0200 Original-Received: from hanwen by muurbloem.xs4all.nl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 01 Jun 2006 03:17:37 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: muurbloem.xs4all.nl X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Originator: lilydev@muurbloem.xs4all.nl (Han-Wen Nienhuys) 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:5949 Archived-At: In article <87irnmt0nk.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net>, Neil Jerram wrote: >ludovic.courtes@laas.fr (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> Sorry for the long mail and if you have any comment, don't hesitate! > >Fascinating! Assuming we can resolve the details you have listed, >what are the other high-level pros/cons, apart from performance? Does >this mean we would discard all Guile's own GC code? Also, is Boehm GC >as sophisticated as the generational GC ideas that people have talked >over the last year about adding Guile, or can we expect future Boehm >GC development to cover this? > >Is Boehm GC an active project? What else uses it? Boehm is generational, AFAIK. Virtually everyone uses BGC. GCJ, MzScheme, BigLoog, GNU Obj-C, etc. See, http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/ for a longer list. By using BGC, you potentially loose a bit of performance, since BGC isn't specialized for LISP/Scheme, but you get a system that is much better overall researched and tuned. _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel