On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Matthias Benkard <mulkiat...@gmail.com> wrote: > Am 25.01.12 15:43, schrieb D.Theisen: >> How did you handle the reference counting vs. Garbage Collection >> chasm? > > I punted on it. GNUstep already had GC support at the time, and it > was upcoming on Mac OS X. I didn't foresee the restrictions imposed > by iOS. :) > > I did consider integrating Boehm GC into the Lisp part of the system. > My assessment was that it would be pretty easy to have it operate on > top of the reference counting that the Cocoa framework does. The only > problem it couldn't solve automatically would be circular references > created by Objective-C code, but I see no way of avoiding those in any > case. > > In effect, what Toilet Lisp does is automatic reference counting. I > hear that Apple now recommends something similar when writing > Objective-C code, except that their approach is significantly more > configurable.
One thing that must help there is that the functional nature of Clojure makes it pretty rare for Clojure code to produce a true reference circularity. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
