Hello!
One more thought...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> 3. Benefit from an all-knowing GC. While Guile's GC knows only about
> the stack(s), registers and "cell heap", BDW-GC knows about all of
> a process' storage: stack(s), registers, the whole heap,
> thread-local storage, etc.
>
> Concrete benefits:
3g. No need to tell Guile about much memory is allocated behind
its back, e.g., with malloc(3). This makes
`scm_gc_register_collectable_memory ()' and friends (info
"(guile) Memory Blocks") no-ops.
It also means that BDW-GC has accurate information about heap
usage, even in the presence of third party libraries that
can't be instrumented to use `scm_gc_malloc ()' et al.,
allowing it to make informed decisions.
Thanks,
Ludo'.
