Re: Forthcoming revisions to the garbage collector; crazy huge hack
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Robert Pluim spake:
Michael Sperber writes:
> - Robert Pluim <rpluim(a)bigfoot.com> at one time did hook up the Boehm
> collector to XEmacs in 1999 with rather disappointing results.
That's a mild way of putting it. My notes from that attempt say
"Leaks like a piece of string" ;-) The investigation I did seemed to
indicate that the incidence of false positives on the stack was rather
high
Was ALL_INTERIOR_POINTERS turned off? (If it wasn't, I'd expect to see
lots of leakage).
> - I rather doubt that Richard will have enough time to
integrate the
> changes of the NewGC branch into the trunk. This would be a very
> worthwhile goal for anyone working on the GC, no matter which one.
Cool. I might tinker with this again if I have time.
Too late :) the integration doesn't seem to be very difficult (not
*that* much of XEmacs has changed in the interim); before the cold
struck I was about 30% of the way through it. I expect to finish it off
this weekend.
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silly shite I'm doing now is like trying to toothpick to death a Black
Knight made of jelly.' --- RDD