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RE: GUILE's GC - why we struggling to solve already solved problems ? (was Re: finding the top of the stack in linux)
- To: Jim Blandy <jimb at savonarola dot red-bean dot com>
- Subject: RE: GUILE's GC - why we struggling to solve already solved problems ? (was Re: finding the top of the stack in linux)
- From: Brent Fulgham <brent dot fulgham at xpsystems dot com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 13:10:24 -0700
- Cc: hanwen at cs dot uu dot nl, guile at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
> > Boehm's GC has A LOT OF things to make efficieng GC in specuial
> > cases possible. Of course it's not for everyone and thus you must
> > use some internal functions. Still it's possible (the same
> > gcj_mlc.c will be good example). Of course it's quite possible then
> > general-purpose GC still will be less efficient then special-purpose
> > GUILE's one. There are no way to know without actual try.
>
> I'm very interested in seeing the results of an actual try. Would you
> be willing to try the experiment, and tell us how it goes?
>
But wasn't that the very experiment han-wen conducted this morning?
-Brent