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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