Andy Wingo 6/11/2025

whippet in guile hacklog: evacuation

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The article details a developer's progress in integrating the Whippet garbage collector API into Guile Scheme. It discusses challenges with non-moving Immix collectors, particularly pathological fragmentation, and outlines the need for heap-precise tracing to enable evacuation mode for better memory management. The author describes ongoing refactoring work in Guile to support this precise tracing.

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