Han-Wen Nienhuys escreveu: > Ludovic Courtès escreveu: >> Hello Guilers! >> >> Below are some of the points (in no particular order) that IMO can make >> it worthwhile to use the Boehm-Demers-Weiser GC [0] in Guile instead of >> Guile's historical GC, from an engineering viewpoint. >> > > I'm all for scrapping code; here are my concerns: > > - what is the performance impact? > > - does BDW GC handle weak references correctly? > > - What about various (undoubtedly little used) areas where GC interacts > with the interpreter: port de-allocation, guardians, etc.
I saw that you mentioned these in your mail. I wonder if it feasible to provide backward compatibility if we move to BDW. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen
