If you are after an eduction, you can just make yourself a big array and write a compiler / runtime system that uses that array instead of calling 'cons'.
Shriram's PLAI has a module on garbage collectors that does this extremely well (by taking away some of the annoying work and letting you focus on the interesting bits, namely the gc algorithms and data layout issues). Robby On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Joe Marshall <jmarsh...@alum.mit.edu> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 11:49 AM, YC <yinso.c...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi all - >> I have a rather curious question - is it possible to write a garbage >> collector in a pointerless language such as racket/scheme? > > It is possible if the system provides a good API to the underlying > memory architecture. The Scheme standard does not specify or > require such a thing, so there is no portable way to hook into the > garbage collector. > > > -- > ~jrm > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users > _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
