Re: Future GC, the free list, and POSIX threads

[Dale Jordan <dalej@alum.mit.edu>]

merry::satchell@hermes.dra.hmg.gb wrote:

> Would this make it possible for one thread to GC at least its own cells
> independently from the other threads?

One proposal for Guile's generational GC has new cells being allocated specially
to enhance their
collectability.  I would think that this would be extensible to Posix threads
with each thread having its
own incubator.  See Greg Harvey's web page

http://home.thezone.net/~gharvey/guile/guile.html

for more details.

Dale Jordan.