[Ecls-list] boehem gc vs built in gc

[Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll]

On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 12:18 +0000, Bruce O'Neel wrote:
> Now, I'm not too stunned by the sparc64 box wanting more memory.  What I am a
> bit suprised is the differences on the 32 bit systems.  I'd like therefore to
> build ECL so that it uses it's internal gc rather than the bohem one so that
> commands such as (room) start working. [...]
> Does anyone have thoughts about whether or not this is a good/bad idea?

It is currently impossible, unless we fix a memory leak in the old
garbage collector (Well, not really in the collector itself, but in the
fact that it does not contemplate all possible roots). Help here would
be really appreciated, but I am afraid I will have to do it myself
eventually.

Juanjo