Hendrik Boom writes: > > > Making languages with different garbage > > > collectors work together is such a pain that I am not very motivated > > > to try. I guess this problem will ensure the survival of C for many > > > years to come. > > > > A student of mine tried twice to integrate Python with Racket > > some 10, 12 years ago. Painful indeed, and your conclusion is > > correct. > > The world needs a good, flexible, exact garbage collector that can be > used by a variety of languages. Ideally, its interface to the rest of > the world should admit of implementations that are just > stop-and-collect, or stop-and-copy, or multicore for speed, or > even concurrent with the mutator.
That's an excellent idea, though I am not sure how to make it happen. I suspect that technically it's already a nontrivial problem (but I am not at all a GC expert), and then there is the nearly insurmountable problem of getting language designers and implementers to agree on something. Konrad. ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
