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>In an application of computer algebra, Boehm collector becomes instable: >the way to fix it is either to disable interior pointer recognition or >to supply information about the presence of pointers in objects, >for instance using GC_malloc_atomic(). If I understand this correctly, Guile does the latter. The GC has full tracing information about all objects in the heap; only the stack is susceptible to misrecognized pointers. I don't want to imply that Guile cannot have storage leaks due to the conservative GC; it certainly can. But I want it to be clear that Guile operates very much at the safer end of the conservative GC spectrum.