[Nix-dev] Unstable channel stuck?

Domen Kožar domen at dev.si
Wed Sep 17 14:55:47 CEST 2014


See https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/287

On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Emmanuel Surleau <
emmanuel.surleau at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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