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> Frankly, though, Guile has a lot of problems right now, none of which > have anything to do with the GC it uses. There's no documentation, it > is slow, it doesn't have the sort of interfaces or module system it > needs, etc. It isn't a worthy competitor to things like Perl, at least > not yet. Once the basic problems are further along, maybe spending > time on GC would be good.... "[Guile] is slow" has a lot to do with the GC it uses. The documentation is more important, but improving the GC is still quite important. I said that Guile should continue to use a conservative GC. I don't at all mean to discourage people from improving the GC within that requirement.