Change the GC so that it can mark and sweep objects in-place, instead
of always copying. This change is helpful for reducing peak memory
use while performing a collection on a large, old heap.
Some non-copying support was already in place for locked objects,
but the new implementation is faster and more general. As an
alternative to locking, the storage manager now provides "immobile"
allocation (currently only for bytevectors, vectors, and boxes),
which allocates an object that won't move but that can be GCed if
it's not referenced. A locked object is an object that has been
immobiled and that is on a global list --- mostly the old,
non-scalable implementation of locked objects brought back, since
immobile objects cover the cases that need to scale.
original commit: aecb7b736cb1d52764c292fa6364a674958dfde3
Fixed typo in profile-dump-html index and corrected overfull box issue in pdf
version of docs.
foreign.stex, system.stex
original commit: 3a3385c7d62326ba3d0d3220329dfcd3e3d0ac8e
Improve error reporting and improve docs as suggested by Andy, and
adjust `conv` -> `conv*` to fit a naming convention.
original commit: b34817aea5d3c4862e7bb313ee9f5281472a832f
Also, report an error if a string type is misused as an argument (for
foreign procedures) or result (for foreign callables) with
`__collect_safe`.
original commit: cdbfa3d86cb0719bf0979b3fe0aa5c4383282b77
