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Re: Dybvig's Guardians etc.


Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@nada.kth.se> writes:

> mike@olan.com (Michael N. Livshin) writes:
> 
> > Just looked at how scm_weak_vectors are handled.  It's nice and fast
> > and all, but isn't calling `realloc' during `scm_gc_mark' considered
> > harmful?
> 
> Why?

What if the very reason to collect garbage was that there is no memory
left?

Am I missing something obvious here?

curious in Rishon-le-Zion,
mike.