Re: GC in GNU-Prolog?

[Fergus Henderson]

On 22-Dec-2000, Daniel Diaz <address@hidden> wrote:
> There is no GC currently in GNU Prolog. However, we started a collaboration 
> with another research team to implement a GC. I hope it will be available 
> around february 2001.

Have you considered using the Boehm (et al) conservative collector?

This is certainly not ideal for Prolog, since you don't get cheap
memory reclamation on failure, but it is pretty easy to hook into.

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