23 Oct
2001
23 Oct
'01
4:24 p.m.
Larry Troxler wrote:
Some time ago, I wrote about how I was integrating Scheme In One Defun/Day into PD [...] The main problem of course, is when to do garbage collection, and I don't think this can be easily solved. [...]
Does SIOD still use the BDW Conservative Collector? If so, and if my memory serves me, there is a patch to that collector to make it operate incrementally. This will at least make it deterministic, although much slower to allocate. It's probably worth looking into. It may even solve some as yet unfound bugs in the rest of Pd...
(jfm3)