> * <yhxr-gvre...@hvbjn.rqh> [2012-02-29 13:55:25 -0600]: > On Wed, 29 Feb 2012, Sam Steingold wrote: >> compacting garbage collector is our best friend! > > Which R does not use because of the problems it would create for > external C/Fortran code on which R heavily relies.
Well, you know better, of course. However, I cannot stop wondering if this really is absolutely necessary. If you do not call GC while the external C/Fortran code is running, you should be fine with a compacting garbage collector. If you access the C/Fortran data (managed by the C/Fortran code), then it should live in a separate universe from the one managed by R GC. -- Sam Steingold (http://sds.podval.org/) on Ubuntu 11.10 (oneiric) X 11.0.11004000 http://www.childpsy.net/ http://dhimmi.com http://camera.org http://iris.org.il http://truepeace.org http://mideasttruth.com Lisp: it's here to save your butt. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
