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Re: GC questions.

To: Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj at mdj dot nada dot kth dot se>
Subject: Re: GC questions.
From: Michael Livshin <mlivshin at bigfoot dot com>
Date: 21 May 2000 17:50:04 +0300
Cc: hanwen at cs dot uu dot nl, guile at sourceware dot cygnus dot com, djurfeldt at nada dot kth dot se
Organization: who? me?
References: <14631.60541.796607.110356@dokkum.cs.uu.nl><s3itw8t29c.fsf@bigfoot.com> <xy7hfbs0yiy.fsf@mdj.nada.kth.se>

Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se> writes:

> Michael Livshin <mlivshin@bigfoot.com> writes:
> 
> > Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@cs.uu.nl> writes:
> > 
> > > * I am puzzled by GUILE_NEW_GC_SCHEME. What is it? Why is it optional?
> > > It makes reading gc.c a pain.
> > 
> > it's "optional" (it's more correct to say that the old scheme is
> > optional) because it's new.  I don't remember any bug reports about GC
> > problems in last two months' CVS Guile, so perhaps it's time to
> > completely remove the old scheme.  what does The Gang of Four think?
> 
> They think "yes".  :)
> 
> Will you remove the old code?

always a pleasure ;).  will do it shortly, together with the
scm_protect thing.

-- 
Parenthesize to avoid ambiguity.

References:
- GC questions.
  - From: Han-Wen Nienhuys
- Re: GC questions.
  - From: Michael Livshin
- Re: GC questions.
  - From: Mikael Djurfeldt

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