On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 3:36 AM, Andy Wingo <wi...@pobox.com> wrote: > On Tue 05 Feb 2013 20:29, Noah Lavine <noah.b.lav...@gmail.com> writes: > > Smob mark procedures are still supported. Changing the GC would be > quite difficult -- we would need to progress to the point that we had > significantly less C. That would be years away if it comes. Anyway, we > could have a compacting collector and still allow fixed-position > objects: >
I see. I hadn't thought about what a big project it would be. I was imagining bytevector->pointer as a procedure that just set some "fixed-position bit" on its object, so there wasn't any allocation. However, that would fit weirdly with the "->" convention. It's probably not worth worrying about. Noah
