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 Subject: Re: the future of Guile Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:42:08 +0100 Message-ID: <87zlwqp4yn.fsf@chbouib.org> References: <1196798803.5494.26.camel@localhost.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1196802071 24297 80.91.229.12 (4 Dec 2007 21:01:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 21:01:11 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-user@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 04 22:01:20 2007 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 1IzetD-0008VS-AV for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Dec 2007 22:01:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Izesw-0006XR-Q1 for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:00:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Izest-0006Wc-3f for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:00:51 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Izesr-0006W4-Jz for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:00:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Izesr-0006Vy-HR for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:00:49 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] 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 1Izesq-0000mJ-Ok for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:00:49 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IzehU-0001jG-OM for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Dec 2007 20:49:04 +0000 Original-Received: from adh419.fdn.fr ([80.67.176.9]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 04 Dec 2007 20:49:04 +0000 Original-Received: from ludo by adh419.fdn.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 04 Dec 2007 20:49:04 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adh419.fdn.fr X-URL: http://www.laas.fr/~lcourtes/ X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEB1F5364 X-PGP-Key: http://www.laas.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 821D 815D 902A 7EAB 5CEE D120 7FBA 3D4F EB1F 5364 X-OS: i486-pc-linux-gnu User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ugz3v22ea0ki79LtDad0hRaTabI= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: 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:6329 Archived-At: Hi, Roland Orre writes: > If the GC should be replaced I would consider it wise to > replace it with an algorithm than can be run in a thread. HBGC can be configured with `--enable-parallel-mark'. The `GC_MARKERS' environment variable then sets the number of marker threads. > Regarding GC I also think it is could be useful to have a GC that > can compact the memory and of course give allocated memory back to > the OS when no longer needed. HBGC doesn't compact memory and does not either give unused memory back to the OS (current GC doesn't either). Thanks, Ludovic. _______________________________________________ Guile-user mailing list Guile-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user