Re: [Chicken-users] Best way to share memory between C and Chicken

[John Cowan]

Felix scripsit:

> Unfortunately, execution and garbage collection are tightly interleaved
> in the cheney-on-the-mta model. 

Minor collection is, but major collection could be run in a separate
thread so that it can run concurrently (even on a second core) with the
rest of the program.  As it happens, I was reading about a concurrent
GC just the other day which sounded interesting -- and just happens to
be named Chicken, how cool is that?

<http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~erez/Papers/real-time-pldi.pdf>

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