Re: Serious GC problem in HEAD

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Kevin Ryde <address@hidden> writes:

> There's really no need to remove globals for their own sake, only one
> gc ever runs of course ...

The point in removing them is to clarify the flow of information, that
is, how GC stats are updated and used.  Believe me, it _was_ hard to
follow with globals.  And Guile is about functional programming, isn't
it?  ;-)

> I've lost track of what it actually improves or fixes :-).

It's mostly a "cleanup" patch:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2005-12/msg00095.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2006-01/msg00009.html

Thanks,
Ludovic.