Hi Kevin, Thank you for your quick reply. Your link to the discussion topic shows that Julia's gc is taken seriously.
Thanks, Robbert. On Wednesday, February 5, 2014 9:00:49 PM UTC+1, Kevin Squire wrote: > > 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....@gmail.com<javascript:> > > 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. >> >> >
