Re: Garbage collection

[Steve Youngs <steve@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Erik Arneson <erik@xxxxxxxx> writes:

  > On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 12:33:44PM +1000, Steve Youngs wrote:
  >> * Johann Oskarsson <Johann> writes:
  >> > 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.

Now that sounds fantastic!  Yes please, lets investigate this.

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