On Fri, 06 Nov 2015 00:12:40 +0100 Bix <strabix...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Yep, manage memory manually is impratical and as you said circular > structures are one of the real problem.
With reference counting these should be a problem, although libgc is a mark-and-sweep collector which should detect when elements are no longer referenced more effectively. > I played a bit with the boot option but I was unable to embed ECL and > not have at least one additional thread spaw by the GC or it was the > SIGNAL_HANDLING_THREAD ? However I always end up with at least two > thread ( in Linux ), am I doing something wrong ? ECL indeed starts a thread to handle signals when it is built with threads support. > I tried to build with --enable-gengc but I'm unable to build, I think > that is Issue #81. Unfortunately I presonally have no experience using the generational variant, but others here might have used it. I think that boehm-gc itself only supports the option on a few select operating systems. > I just noticed the cl_boot options allow INCREMENTAL_GC what the > difference between that one and the autoconf option --enable-gengc Presumably --enable-gengc allows to build optional support, and INCREMENTAL_GC permits to enable said support for that instance. I also noticed your question about share-nothing; this is what would occur if you used actual OS processes for the instances. -- Matt
