From: Martin DeMello
Subject: [Chicken-users] doto macro
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 01:37:06 +0530
> I stole the doto macro from clojure. Quite useful for GUI code in
> particular. It might make a nice addition to miscmacros too.
>
> (define-syntax doto
> (lambda (f r c)
> (let [(s (cadr f))
>
From: sch...@uni-potsdam.de
Subject: [Chicken-users] Disable garbage collection
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:40:36 +0200
> Hi,
>
> is there a way to disable and enable garbage collection at runtime?
>
No, disabling GC would disable procedure calls (since continuation-frames
are heap-allocated). Yo
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 4:31 AM, Felix
wrote:
> No, disabling GC would disable procedure calls (since continuation-frames
> are heap-allocated). You can reduce "major" GCs (which usually take longest)
> by either using a large initial heap (for example by using the "-:h..."
> runtime parameter) an
Am Donnerstag, den 05.08.2010, 04:27 -0400 schrieb Felix:
> Now, this is nice indeed. Thanks!
Agreed. But in a way I feel it would more chickenish if those
nice-to-have-things where in an egg, not the core system.
/Jerry
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Hi Jörg
On Thu, 05 Aug 2010 20:48:44 +0200 Jörg "F. Wittenberger"
wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 05.08.2010, 04:27 -0400 schrieb Felix:
>> Now, this is nice indeed. Thanks!
>
> Agreed. But in a way I feel it would more chickenish if those
> nice-to-have-things where in an egg, not the core system
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 12:54 AM, John Cowan wrote:
> I suppose you could have a startup option which disables major GCs and
> allocates one big space, and then kills the program while it runs out.
You can compile with -heap-size XXX, which will produce an executable
using a fixed amount of heap a
