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Re: Gen GC?


Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@cs.uu.nl> writes:

> > you could also try configuring a recent Guile version with
> > --enable-debug-malloc and see whether you leak smob memory.
> 
> I looked into this some time ago, and plugged all leaks.

Guile will also leak if smob free routines lie about the ammount of
memory freed. In that case, GC will work and won't leak, but won't be
called often enough as Guile gets fooled into thinking that there's
enough spare heap.

-- 
How to eff the ineffable?

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