Re: programmed gc mark and free sweeps...

[Lars J. Aas]

On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 02:53:32PM +0300, Michael Livshin wrote:
: "Lars J. Aas" <address@hidden> writes:
: > Is scm_gc_sweep() all I need to make Guile do the mark and sweep?
: 
: no, you need to call `scm_gc()' or `(gc)' from Scheme.
: 
: you can also call `(gc-set-debug-check-freelist! #t)', after which
: every allocation will call GC.  this might be too slow, but is very
: thorough.

Seems a bit too thorough for my use :).  (gc) from the interpreter
seems like just what I need.

Thanks,

  Lars J