Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] make symbol-GC more reliable

[Peter Bex]

On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 03:40:21PM +0100, Felix wrote:
> This means that a symbol was already collectible before "*count1*" was
> set.  The "-1" is the result of the current symbol count subtracted
> from the initial. I think a w-e-t hash-collision caused a symbol not
> to be GC'd, even though no references existed anymore. As the hash-key
> is computed from the address of the symbol, differences in
> memory-layout will influence the time and amount of symbols collected.

OK, I guess that's just fine then.  I've pushed the change.

Cheers,
Peter
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