Re: [Chicken-users] Large vector

[felix winkelmann]

On 5/10/07, Mark Voortman <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 2. Have you considered the GC implications?
>
> There should be no garbage collection. I just load it into memory once and
> that's it.

Since chicken uses a (generational) stop-and-copy collector, all data
allocated will be moved from one space to another on every GC.

But it should be possible to create some sort of higher-level abstraction
on top of non-GCd (but finalized) raw memory. I'll try to come up with
something.


cheers,
felix