[Nix-dev] Unstable channel stuck?

Emmanuel Surleau emmanuel.surleau at gmail.com
Wed Sep 17 09:35:35 CEST 2014


As far as I know, all non-toy functional programming languages have a
custom GC. Not that Boehm can't be useful to get you off the ground,
but after that you're going to need something better.

Cheers,

Emm

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 11:38 PM, Luca Bruno <lethalman88 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Also in my opinion this is mostly caused by boehm which is unable to find a
> spot for new objects. I was trying to implement a very simple GC as a proof
> to see whether it was boehm's fault or not, but Dolstra said it's hardly a
> boehm problem.
>
> However I think I will retry the attempt for what it matters. I think boehm
> is not well suited for writing function programming languages where objects
> gets created and destroyed at a very fast rate, rather for normal
> application usage.
>
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