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Re: speed and consing (Re: DHARMI project)

Maciej Stachowiak <mstachow@mit.edu> writes:

> Maybe at some point a sufficiently brilliant person will read a bunch
> of research papers and implement a thread-safe generational
> mostly-copying partially-conservative background garbage collector for
> Guile. Well, we can dream, anyway.

There is an OS-level thread-safe conservative mostly-parallel garbage
collector for C that one might be able to drop in.  Porbably not, if
guile does bit-fiddling on pointers... but it might be worth looking
at.  Boehm's GC... http://reality.sgi.com/employees/boehm_mti/gc.html.

Andrew
aarchiba@csclub.uwaterloo.ca