Re: Forthcoming revisions to the garbage collector; crazy huge hack
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 01:36:30PM +0900, Martin Buchholz wrote:
Most of the recent maintenance of the existing gc has been by
Olivier
Galibert and myself.
Mostly you. I've been quite inactive lately, as you've probably
noticed.
Nix> The one I've picked is the Boehm collector; it's not
terribly portable,
Nix> but that can be fixed fairly easily --- and it lets us dump bloody GCPRO
Nix> and all the uglinesses it has spawned over the years (blocking string
Nix> compaction, Lispification in redisplay and many other things).
One thing I've heard you should be careful with: conservative GCs tend
to "memory leak" with time, finding pointers that aren't really there
anymore. They're perfect for short running applications (gcc is a
good example), but tend to suck on long running ones. I don't really
know how true it is, but you should probably do some research on the
subject.
Otherwise, as Martin says, good luck :-)
OG.