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Re: generational GC

Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se> writes:

> Jim Blandy <jimb@red-bean.com> writes:
> 
> > 
> > We also should try to make less work for the GC, by avoiding consing
> > up local environments until they're closed over.
> 
> Yes.  Probably not necessary to mention, but this is what SCM's
> environment cache does.

How much work would it be to port that code to Guile? If it saved us a
lot of the GC time cost on startup it would be a great help.

 - Maciej
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