From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user,gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Killing off scm_init_guile for Guile 2.0 ? Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:23:09 +0100 Message-ID: <87zlhirnyq.fsf@gnu.org> References: <49dd78620901151530o66a2641ax47e526d15fc09faf@mail.gmail.com> <20090116213215.YITDV.179685.root@cdptpa-web09-z02> <3ae3aa420901161736u5de528d5gc75da062fb036115@mail.gmail.com> <49dd78620901221802i36618f94qcc4bf56a89d32a46@mail.gmail.com> <87wscmk0s8.fsf@unknownlamer.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1232728321 19034 80.91.229.12 (23 Jan 2009 16:32:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:32:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org To: guile-user@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 23 17:33:15 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LQOxF-0008OP-8z for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:32:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36219 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LQOvx-0000XM-IQ for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:31:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LQOv5-0008Bg-I0 for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:30:11 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LQOv2-00089z-Up for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:30:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40433 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LQOv1-00089v-R3 for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:30:07 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:45869 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LQOv1-00016s-FI for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:30:07 -0500 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LQOux-0002JO-6J for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:30:03 +0000 Original-Received: from 193.50.110.227 ([193.50.110.227]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:30:03 +0000 Original-Received: from ludo by 193.50.110.227 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:30:03 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Followup-To: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.50.110.227 X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 4 =?iso-8859-1?Q?Pluvi=F4se?= an 217 de la =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 821D 815D 902A 7EAB 5CEE D120 7FBA 3D4F EB1F 5364 X-OS: i686-pc-linux-gnu User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:OeASLh6gnJGE1JU0BjZ8GyMpE4U= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:7090 gmane.lisp.guile.devel:8068 Archived-At: Hi, Clinton Ebadi writes: > Does Guile mode actually have any meaning when using the BDW GC? The BDW > GC algorithm does not need to put other threads to sleep when sweeping; > it does this implicitly by causing the functions that register > collectable memory to block during the sweep phase as far as I can > tell. The libc malloc/free can continue doing whatever they want in the > meantime. A thread blocking for any reason should not be a problem as a > result (does Guile mode have another other restrictions?). Exactly (sorry I hit "reply" before reading your message). Thanks, Ludo'.