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From: | Alaric Snell-Pym |
Subject: | Re: [Chicken-users] Does Chicken garbage collect unreferenced symbols? |
Date: | Sun, 23 Aug 2009 22:10:59 +0100 |
On 22 Aug 2009, at 11:43 pm, John Cowan wrote:
If symbols aren't gc'd now, I'd like to argue for them to be. In an application I'm writing, I want to generate lots of random symbols at runtime so they can be looked up more quickly in a-lists, but I don't necessarily want them hanging around forever.
Is that necessarily the best solution to your problem, though? Anything with an identity (a cons cell, for example) will work as a 'token' for a-list lookups? ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym Work: http://www.snell-systems.co.uk/ Play: http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ Blog: http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/archives/author/alaric/
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