Re: [Chicken-hackers] CHICKEN in production

[Felix Winkelmann]

> Ah, no, I meant store just the index in mmapped memory so it doesn't take
> up heap space.
> This does mean it gets treated as just a blob of data, and you need to
> write your own routines to access it.
> 
> Some gc's allow moving objects out of the heap or otherwise marking them
> non-movable, we could consider such an extension for Chicken.

"object-evict" would be the CHICKEN way of doing this, I think. Later
mutation of evicted objects is not allowed, unless the stored values
are evicted themselves.


felix