Re: the future of Guile

[Kjetil S. Matheussen]

On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Kjetil S. Matheussen wrote:

> 
> "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.
> 

Oh, and another thing. My tests (available in the guile-devel archives)
also showed that the HBGC version usually use a bit less memory
than Guile's old garbage collector. (Yet another "should"
for replacing. :-) )