Re: [jhc] what to work on next?

That reminds me. I had previously thought a hybrid approach for garbage collection would be beneficial. One could use regional GC for all objects that can be safely assigned to regions, for all others, use an incremental GC. Perhaps some additional assumptions could be made about the "global" region objects that would allow for further optimizations. On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Taral wrote:

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Corey O'Connor wrote:

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2. Improved garbage collector? This might just be a documentation issue. The documentation states the region-based garbage collector leaks memory. And the configure script hints at being able to use a standard Boehm garbage collector library. Does the region based garbage collector still have issues? When should one be used over the other?

+1

This is the main reason I don't use jhc code in production.

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