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Re: Guile + Boehm GC: First Remarks
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Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
Re: Guile + Boehm GC: First Remarks |
Date: |
Thu, 01 Jun 2006 09:22:40 +0200 |
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Hi,
address@hidden (Han-Wen Nienhuys) writes:
> Boehm is generational, AFAIK.
>
> Virtually everyone uses BGC. GCJ, MzScheme, BigLoog, GNU Obj-C, etc.
Yeah, and it's actively maintained and actively used. The mailing list
is active as well and Hans Boehm has been very helpful answering my
questions. Also, it's ported to a wide range of platforms, it's highly
tuned, it's designed to live with and take advantage of preemptive
multithreading, etc. It's the result of a decade of design and
implementation work, as can be seen from
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/ .
I believe we would never have sufficient manpower to compete with it
(and it seems that most other language runtime implementors arrived to
the same conclusion).
Thanks,
Ludovic.