Re: the future of Guile

[Kjetil S. Matheussen]

"Marco Maggi":
> 4. If  a garbage  collector allows  to remove  the  need for
>   "scm_remember_upto_here"  it must be  adopted even  if it
>   makes Guile slower  and it raises memory usage  a bit (or
>   more than a bit).

If we replace "should" with "must", I agree.

Regarding the HBGC, a few nonscientific tests earlier this year
showed that HBGC had _much_ lower latency than Guile's garbage
collector.

I am planning to measure the difference in latency properly
quite soon, and if what I suspect is correct, that the HBGC
has significant lower latency, this is another "should"
for replacing the old one, even if the new one is a little
bit slower and use a little bit more memory.