Re: tools to make non-conservative GC feasible.

[thi <ttn@mingle.glug.org>]

Chris.Bitmead@misys.com.au writes:

 > >I wouldn't trust it in cases where someone could end up dead if
 > >something goes wrong (and I don't trust nuclear arsenals to anything),
 > >but I do trust it for guile, which isn't really targetted towards life
 > >and death situations.
 > 
 > Well, the thing is Guile's aim seems to be that it shall become ubiquitous.
 > I mean, the aim of guile is that it shall become a part of nearly every
 > GNU program as a standard extension language. And GNU's aim, you might
 > argue might be said to be Linus's "World Domination". The upshot is that
 > guile could one day be in places that you wouldn't dream of. No, I'm not
 > really worried, but it does give pause for thought.
 > 
 > >Also, the fd's aren't necessarily going to be in a contiguous space of
 > memory, >which could also help.
 > 
 > It will almost always help. The key word being "almost".

Guile already understands -DRECKLESS, semantics of which are definable.

thi