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Re: GC and continuations

To: Telford Tendys <telford at eng dot uts dot edu dot au>
Subject: Re: GC and continuations
From: Michael Livshin <mlivshin at bigfoot dot com>
Date: 21 Feb 2000 15:35:46 +0200
Cc: guile at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
Organization: who? me?
References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10002171744330.21836-100000@goo.dev.mt.lv> <s3n1oz6cud.fsf@verisity.com> <20000218184057.B31577@triangle.ee.uts.edu.au>

Telford Tendys <telford@eng.uts.edu.au> writes:

> > Guile grabs memory with malloc, and free doesn't usually returns the
> > memory to the OS.
> 
> I'm pretty sure that guile never frees cell memory. 

Guile frees heap chunks that don't contain any live cells after a GC.
I'm not sure if this situation is very frequent or in any way
predictable, though.

> 	- Tel

--mike

-- 
Think of C++ as an object-oriented assembly language.

References:
- Re: GC and continuations
  - From: Janis Dzerins
- Re: GC and continuations
  - From: Michael Livshin
- Re: GC and continuations
  - From: Telford Tendys

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