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Re: tools to make non-conservative GC feasible.





>Isn't there one more issue?  I'm not at all certain that a precise
>collector would be more efficient.  With conservative GC you have to
>scan the stack once per GC.  With precise GC, you have to do
>bookkeeping (both registering and off-registering) for every single
>SCM variable occuring on the stack between GC:s...

But it may be a lot easier to implement incremental collection with
explicit marking.