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Re: speed and consing (Re: DHARMI project)


telford@triangle.triode.net.au writes:
> 
> (roughly:
>   25% scm_gc_mark
>   25% scm_gc_sweep
>   25% scm_deval
>   25% everything else in the program)
> 

Maybe at some point a sufficiently brilliant person will read a bunch
of research papers and implement a thread-safe generational
mostly-copying partially-conservative background garbage collector for
Guile. Well, we can dream, anyway.

 - Maciej