Re: [gclist] Experience with conservative GC sought

[sperber@Informatik.Uni-Tuebingen.De (Michael Sperber \[Mr. Preprocessor\])]

>>>>> "Carl" == Carl Bruggeman <bruggema@ranger.uta.edu> writes:

Carl> To: gclist@iecc.com
Carl> Subject: Re: [gclist] Experience with conservative GC sought 
Carl> --------
Carl> Sorry, I sent this off without thinking much (if at all) about it...

>> Suggestion:  It seems to me it should be trivial to plug Boehm's
>> collector into the current version of emacs:  just have the collect
>> handler nil out the pointers on the root stack before doing a
>> collection (no need to remove any of the current GC support code). 

Carl> The current version obviously has pointers that are encoded for run
Carl> time tagging, while it is the new version based on Guile/SCM that they
Carl> are considering using the Boehm collector. 

Actually, I'm mostly involved with XEmacs.  In XEmacs the decision of
which new substrate to use is still open.  GC will be a major factor
in the decision, I expect.

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Cheers =8-} Mike
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