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> Hang on, wasn't the whole idea of looking at alternative garbage > collectors to make the thing run faster? What is the point og BW-GC if > it is actually slower than the (comparatively simple) mark and sweep > system that guile already uses? Yes and no. Efficiency is certainly one of the issues. I didn't actually realize the the BW collector was slower. But lag is another --- for many of guile's proposed applications, a several-second (minute) pause is undesirable. Currently we have to stop everything when we collect garbage. The BW collector does things mostly in parallel. Andrew