Re: t and nil in pure memory?

[Ken Raeburn]

On Nov 18, 2009, at 14:13, Tom Tromey wrote:
> > > > > > "Ken" == Ken Raeburn <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Ken> But maybe we should also consider a more drastic change: Use Hans
> Ken> Boehm's GC library.
>
> FWIW, there's already a branch for this.  Apparently the work was  
> never
> completed, though.

Ah, yes, so there is...  I'd forgotten about that, thanks.

It occurs to me that -- again, if my guile-emacs work catches on --  
some of the remaining storage management code will probably have to  
change to be boehm-gc compatible.  Maybe I should see what it would  
take to update Dave's work to the current source base, as yet another  
project that may have its uses independent of the guile work.

>  There's also a bit of traffic about it in the
> emacs-devel archives.

I'm looking now... though most of it seems to be "maybe we should  
consider doing this" type traffic.  There's a report that a "very  
limited experiment" with XEmacs found it to be slower, but not much  
analysis of why.  And, it (the email report) was seven years ago;  
libgc may have improved.

Ken