Re: [Chicken-hackers] CHICKEN in production

[Alex Shinn]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 5:34 PM, Felix Winkelmann <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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.

Oh, thanks, I had forgotten Chicken already had this :)

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Alex