[guile-devel] a note on garbage collection

[Nelson H. F. Beebe]

This list has recently carried discussion of garbage collection, and
version 1.9.3 includes the Boehm-Demers-Weiser garbage collector.

There is newly-published paper that suggests there may be a better
alternative:

        Precise Garbage Collection for C
        Jon Rafkind, Adam Wick, John Regehr & Matthew Flatt
        http://www.cs.utah.edu/~regehr/papers/ismm15-rafkind.pdf

This is an outgrowth of Adam Wick's 2006 Ph.D. thesis from the
University of Utah, "Magpie: Precise Garbage Collection for C".

[Disclaimer: although we are at the same institution, I do not 
personally know any of the authors.]

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