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garbage collectors


Aubrey Jaffer says he has used SCM for very long-running computations
without any problems.  He does (I think) circuit simulations with it.
Guile's GC is identical in principle to SCM's.

In theory, yes, conservative GC can cause an unbounded amount of
garbage to be retained.  In practice, we haven't seen this as a
problem.  We've found storage leaks in Guile, but they have never been
the GC's fault --- just the humans, as usual.