I thought Chicken's approach seemed novel, but I don't understand it  
well enough to explain it. From what I gather, they use the C stack as  
the "new" heap and collapse it when the garbage collector copies.

John

On 30 Oct 2008, at 3:56 AM, Alexander Burger wrote:
>
>> class continuations like scheme does.  Have you thought about using
>> the picoLisp heap instead of the traditional C stack?
>
> Yes, I experimented with that, but did not find a better solution. The
> hardware stack seems optimal for certain things. On the other hand, it
> is always worth to explore other possibilities.
>
> Cheers,
> - Alex
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