From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: Noah Lavine <noah.b.lavine@gmail.com>
Cc: Guile Mailing List <guile-user@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: on coding a portable R6RS package supporting Guile and its FFI
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2013 09:36:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bobxg7pn.fsf@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+U71=NCs-TFuO7qCvC8vnnr396p8iHyp8qYFjjuJrVU4oewWg@mail.gmail.com> (Noah Lavine's message of "Tue, 5 Feb 2013 14:29:38 -0500")
On Tue 05 Feb 2013 20:29, Noah Lavine <noah.b.lavine@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu 17 Jan 2013 11:53, Marco Maggi <marco.maggi-ipsu@poste.it>
> writes:
> > The other Scheme implementations using a non-compacting
> > garbage collector
>
> Do we want to guarantee that our garbage collector will always be
> non-compacting, or force major interface changes if it is? (I realize
> we've already taken out smob mark procedures, but this is in some ways
> even harder to add back.)
Smob mark procedures are still supported. Changing the GC would be
quite difficult -- we would need to progress to the point that we had
significantly less C. That would be years away if it comes. Anyway, we
could have a compacting collector and still allow fixed-position
objects:
http://www.scheme.com/csug8/smgmt.html#./smgmt:h3
Andy
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-06 8:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-17 10:53 on coding a portable R6RS package supporting Guile and its FFI Marco Maggi
2013-01-27 15:08 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-01-28 3:00 ` Daniel Hartwig
2013-02-05 17:38 ` Andy Wingo
2013-02-05 19:29 ` Noah Lavine
2013-02-06 8:36 ` Andy Wingo [this message]
2013-02-06 13:25 ` Noah Lavine
2013-02-05 22:31 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-02-06 10:57 ` Andy Wingo
2013-02-08 14:10 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-02-08 14:37 ` Andy Wingo
2013-02-08 15:52 ` Ludovic Courtès
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