On Wed 03 Mar 2010 00:52, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> Andy Wingo <wi...@pobox.com> writes: >> >>> But you can't / shouldn't make a new fluid every time you enter a >>> `catch', because currently fluids are never garbage collected! We really >>> need to fix this. I think it's a 1.9 regression. >> >> Indeed. We should use a weak vector or some such instead of the current >> scm_gc_malloc’d array. > > Just to clarify: fluids themselves *are* GC’d, but fluid numbers aren’t > recycled so ALLOCATED_FLUIDS grows endlessly (1 byte per fluid).
One word per make-fluid, per thread, right? FWIW I don't need fluids to be gc'd any more, though it probably is a good idea. A -- http://wingolog.org/
