Progress on the Gilectomy

[Marko Rauhamaa]

Paul Rubin <no.email at nospam.invalid>:

> The simplest way to start experimenting with GC in Python might be to
> redefine the refcount macros to do nothing, connect the allocator to
> the Boehm GC, and stop all the threads when GC time comes. I don't
> know if Guile has threads at all, but I know it uses the Boehm GC and
> it's quite effective.

Guile requires careful programming practices in the C extension code:

   <URL: https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Foreign-Ob
   ject-Memory-Management.html#Foreign-Object-Memory-Management>


Marko