From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl>
To: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why bother porting Guile to BDW-GC?
Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2008 00:27:43 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <gf5hr0$s95$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <gf5hjl$rim$1@ger.gmane.org>
Han-Wen Nienhuys escreveu:
> Ludovic Courtès escreveu:
>> Hello Guilers!
>>
>> Below are some of the points (in no particular order) that IMO can make
>> it worthwhile to use the Boehm-Demers-Weiser GC [0] in Guile instead of
>> Guile's historical GC, from an engineering viewpoint.
>>
>
> I'm all for scrapping code; here are my concerns:
>
> - what is the performance impact?
>
> - does BDW GC handle weak references correctly?
>
> - What about various (undoubtedly little used) areas where GC interacts
> with the interpreter: port de-allocation, guardians, etc.
I saw that you mentioned these in your mail. I wonder if it feasible to
provide backward compatibility if we move to BDW.
--
Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanwen@xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-09 2:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-08 15:58 Why bother porting Guile to BDW-GC? Ludovic Courtès
2008-11-09 2:23 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2008-11-09 2:27 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys [this message]
2008-11-09 18:25 ` Ludovic Courtès
2008-11-10 20:57 ` Neil Jerram
2008-11-11 20:11 ` Ludovic Courtès
2008-11-11 20:32 ` Andy Wingo
2008-11-12 8:28 ` Ludovic Courtès
2008-11-10 21:10 ` Ludovic Courtès
2008-11-11 20:42 ` Ludovic Courtès
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