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Scheming, part 3

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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Not another Scheme interpreter!

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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