Andy Wingo 5/22/2025

whippet lab notebook: guile, heuristics, and heap growth

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This article details the author's work integrating the Whippet garbage collector with Guile Scheme. It discusses heap sizing strategies (fixed, growable, adaptive), the current use of a growable policy with a multiplier, and a specific fragmentation problem encountered during Guile's bootstrap that can lead to a livelock. The author analyzes the issue and considers potential solutions.

whippet lab notebook: guile, heuristics, and heap growth

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