Thanks Robby & Joe - this gives me the sketch I needed to see how it will work. Thanks again.
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Robby Findler <ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu>wrote: > If you are after an eduction, you can just make yourself a big array > and write a compiler / runtime system that uses that array instead of > calling 'cons'. > > Shriram's PLAI has a module on garbage collectors that does this > extremely well (by taking away some of the annoying work and letting > you focus on the interesting bits, namely the gc algorithms and data > layout issues). > > Robby > > On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Joe Marshall <jmarsh...@alum.mit.edu> > wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 11:49 AM, YC <yinso.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi all - > >> I have a rather curious question - is it possible to write a garbage > >> collector in a pointerless language such as racket/scheme? > > > > It is possible if the system provides a good API to the underlying > > memory architecture. The Scheme standard does not specify or > > require such a thing, so there is no portable way to hook into the > > garbage collector. > > > > >
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