[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) writes: > Hi all, > > Integration of Boehm's GC within Guile was discussed at length in the > past, especially back in 2000. Apparently, Han-Wen even got to the > point of having an preliminary implementation of Guile that uses it[0]. > Unfortunately the URL mentioned there is no longer valid. > > Han-Wen: Could you summarize your conclusions and maybe make your code > available as well? > > More generally, do people (still) believe that Guile should use BGC? > Back then, there was apparently some consensus that it would be a Good > Thing.
I looked at this about 2 years ago. My goodness it was complicated. I thought that there was a good argument for overhauling the objects and the GC together. I thought it would be particularly interesting if glib objects were used as guile's objects. This wouldn't make overhauling the GC any easier (except by removing cruft) but it would be a worthwhile exercise in reduction IMHO. Nic Ferrier _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel
