At first glance, those issues seem like they could be mitigated, so I think I see room here for some real-time ref-counted clojure. I imagine it'd still have a lot of allocations so it wouldn't be that great for low-memory systems.
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Jean Niklas L'orange <jeann...@hypirion.com > wrote: > > > On Thursday, May 30, 2013 2:21:36 PM UTC+2, Gary Trakhman wrote: >> >> I just thought about this recently, but does the value-oriented nature of >> clojure mostly void the need for a cycles-aware GC? It seems like you >> won't ever have cycles without identities, or pointers (java references). >> Maybe this would be a problem only when you need identities, ie deftype or >> defprotocol implementing objects. >> > > Sure thing, the value-oriented nature removes a lot of cycles in practice. > However, you may for instance have an atom which contain itself, so they > are not nonexistant. As such, the GC cannot be completely cycle-ignorant, > but perhaps it doesn't have to be efficient at finding them either. > > Another place where cycles happen are in (mutually) recursive functions, > they may be iffy if you define many recursive anonymous functions at > runtime. > > -- Jean Niklas L'orange > > -- > -- > 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 > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
