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Re: [Chicken-users] Does Chicken garbage collect unreferenced symbols?
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Jim Ursetto |
Subject: |
Re: [Chicken-users] Does Chicken garbage collect unreferenced symbols? |
Date: |
Sun, 23 Aug 2009 01:33:54 -0500 |
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 5:43 PM, John Cowan<address@hidden> wrote:
> If symbols aren't gc'd now, I'd like to argue for them to be.
As per the Chicken README, symbol GC is disabled by default,
but may be enabled globally at compiler build time, or per-app
at runtime.
SYMBOLGC=1
Always enable garbage collection for unused symbols in the
symbol table by default. This will result in slightly slower
garbage collection, but minimizes the amount of garbage
retained at runtime (which might be important for long
running server applications). If you don't specify this
option you can still enable symbol GC at runtime by passing
the `-:w' runtime option when running the program.