Re: tools to make non-conservative GC feasible.

["Marisha Ray & Neil Jerram" <mpriz@dircon.co.uk>]

This sounds scary, but I think that's probably because I don't quite
understand the issue.  Is it that garbage can be incorrectly retained when a
program includes pointer-like values, or that live objects can be
incorrectly garbaged?  If the former, how could anyone die because of it?

    Neil

>>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.