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Re: Garbage collection

From: Erik Arneson <erik@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Garbage collection
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 21:25:01 -0700
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On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 12:33:44PM +1000, Steve Youngs wrote:
> * Johann Oskarsson <Johann> writes:
>   > 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)?

The Boehm garbage collector is thread-safe (and, in fact, can run in a
separate thread), which is one really large win over the garbage collector in
XEmacs 21.4.

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