Posted by kernelbob on October 20, 2008
GC is hard. Let’s go shopping.
I’ve been working on my scheme interpreter a lot. But I don’t have much to show for it. What I do have, finally, is a working garbage collector (GC). GC is a real pain to debug. Every error shows up as a memory corruption bug.
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Posted by kernelbob on September 11, 2008
I’m getting psyched about the idea of writing a Scheme interpreter. I’m wondering what’s the absolute minimum amount of C code you have to write to be able to bootstrap it.
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