[PD] Any interest in a pre-alpha scheme external

Larry Troxler lt at westnet.com
Wed Oct 24 05:45:29 CEST 2001


jfm3 wrote:
> 
> Larry Troxler wrote:
> > Some time ago, I wrote about how I was integrating Scheme In One
> > Defun/Day into PD [...]
> > The main problem of course, is when to do garbage collection, and I
> > don't think this can be easily solved. [...]
> 
> Does SIOD still use the BDW Conservative Collector? If so, and if my
> memory serves me, there is a patch to that collector to make it operate
> incrementally. This will at least make it deterministic, although much
> slower to allocate. It's probably worth looking into. It may even solve
> some as yet unfound bugs in the rest of Pd...
> 
> (jfm3)

Something like that would be great, except that in the SIOD references
I've found, and in the download I used, no reference was made at all to
the BDW collector - the SIOD I have just has a choice of Mark and Sweep,
or Copy (I think), neither of which are incremental.

Larry Troxler



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