On Oct 1, 2009, at 8:31 PM, Andreas Rottmann wrote:
Given the above, you have two options to make the reclamation happen
automatically: Either place a call to `collect-blas-vectors' into
`make-blas-vectors', or register `collect-blas-vectors' with the GC,
which is a recently-added feature[0]. You can read more about
guardians
in the paper "Guardians in a Generation-Based Garbage Collector", by
Dybvig et al. [1].
The only little problem that I see is that making many BLAS vectors
quickly could potentially run out of memory before the GC triggers.
(because a BLAS vector of N bytes will only use fixed few bytes of
Scheme data, and it will take lots of these to cause a GC) I don't
have a clean solution to this problem. Any ideas?
Aziz,,,
