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Author SHA1 Message Date
Matthew Flatt
f53f20b5b9 GC marking (non-copying) mode
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
2020-04-22 07:10:02 -06:00
Matthew Flatt
4030eae6a7 support cross-compile using MinGW
original commit: f36d5f8c0a4e31666e4332824d79279d9986e886
2019-03-02 05:30:08 -07:00
Bob Burger
831ea8ad18 changed copyright year to 2017
7.ss, scheme.1.in, comments of many files

original commit: 06f858f9a505b9d6fb6ca1ac97234927cb2dc641
2017-04-06 11:41:33 -04:00
dyb
1356af91b3 initial upload of open-source release
original commit: 47a210c15c63ba9677852269447bd2f2598b51fe
2016-04-26 10:04:54 -04:00