GC and scheduler Qs

[Brian Rice]

On Jul 19, 2004, at 9:16 AM, Waldemar Kornewald wrote:

> Hi,
> will apps be able to code their own GC for special object types? A 
> netstack might want a different GC policy than the default one. What 
> about the scheduler? A multimedia app might want real-time scheduling, 
> for example. I read that Smalltalk/X has the possibility to change the 
> scheduling algorithm.

Dylan has the Memory Pool System which already allows this, but it is 
cumbersome. We are interested; no solutions yet.

> Oh, BTW, I compiled Slate on BeOS and it works, but the text
> Slate 1>
> (and so on)
> is displayed after I enter a command. I did not find the place where 
> this string is printed, so I do not know how to solve it. I think the 
> buffer must be flushed somewhere. Maybe BeOS flushes the buffer after 
> a newline by default.

Try mobius/repl.slate .

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Brian T. Rice
LOGOS Research and Development
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