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Re: forcing guile to collect *all* garbage?

Jon Trowbridge <trow@emccta.com> writes:

> Is there anything that I can do to trigger an "aggressive" garbage
> collection in guile, in which the whole heap would be scanned and I
> could be sure afterwards that every lingering unreferenced object had
> been deallocated?

That is how the gc currently operates (though I might not be
understanding you correctly). If a dead object is hanging around, it
means that either it's being scanned conservatively, or that something
you don't know about is holding a reference to it (the printer is
currently very bad in this regard).

> I don't mind if this is a relatively slow operation --- lingering
> unreferenced smobs are making it impossible for me to
> deterministically flush some caches in the C++ back-end that I'm using
> guile to scriptify...



-- 
Greg