Re: [Chicken-users] Optimal C

[felix winkelmann]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:21 AM, John Cowan <address@hidden> wrote:
> felix winkelmann scripsit:
>
>> Note that crunch is highly experimental and incomplete. You requirements
>> are tough, and you will not find many functional languages that don't require
>> GC. Stalin and MLton come to mind (perhaps one can make GC at least
>> unlikely, or reduce it to a minimum).
>
> Stalin uses the Boehm conservative GC.
>

That's correct. But (provided Stalin an infer enough allocation information from
the code) GC can sometimes be avoided.


cheers,
felix