Re: Garbage collection

[Steve Youngs <steve@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Johann Oskarsson <Johann> writes:

  > Hi,
  > I was just brainstorming a bit, and was wondering if we should move
  > the garbage collection (if possible) to this:

  > http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/

What advantages does it buy us?  Perhaps we should look at XEmacs
21.5's new garbage collector (KKCC)?

  > If this is not possible (I recall something which I understood as
  > making use of this impossible with the current lisp engine), can we
  > move towards making it possible.

If there are benefits, sure.

  > Are there any objections?

None yet. :-P


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