Hi Robbert, I'm not sure if this goes in the direction you need, but check out:
https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/5227 Have you also seen https://github.com/zachallaun/FunctionalCollections.jl? Cheers, Kevin On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Robbert van Dalen < robbert.van.da...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I really like the looks of Julia, but don't want to use it *yet*. > > IMO, what Julia is really lacking is a (runtime choice of) industry grade > garbage collector implementation(s). > > The reason I care is that I want to implement various immutable data > structures in Julia. > But such structures need a high performance (concurrent) garbage collector. > I understand that my use-case is of less importance to the community, > because Julia is targeted to do numeric computing. > > Nevertheless, Julia has been touted as a 'kind-of' lisp because of its > homoiconicity and macros. > And all important lisp implementations rely on high performance gc's. > > Why not Julia? Are there any plans to improve Julia's gc? > > Cheers, > Robbert. > >
