On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 06:01:16PM -0400, Andrew Kuchling wrote: > On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 06:08:18PM -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > >Wrong answer. The right answer is to fix lambda (or some variant of lambda) > >to be a true lexical closure. > > Hm... hmmmm... fixing this has been suggested before, but always > foundered on the fact that creating a closure required a cycle, which > would leak memory. Now we have an optional GC that should handle > this, so maybe fixing it can be revisited. (But this would mean that > GC is essentially no longer optional -- maybe too radical a thing to > do before we're sure about the new GC. 2.1, maybe?) I would like to get the memory consumption down before making GC standard. Hopefully Vladimir and I can team up to accomplish this. still-waiting-for-my-home-machine-ly Neil
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