[chuck-users] Getting Started with ChucK
Hans Aberg
haberg at math.su.se
Tue Jul 21 14:39:42 EDT 2009
I just now see, at the bottom of this paragraph:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCaml#Features
that the GC of OCaml is not designed for concurrency. So it cannot be
used on a multicore system, it seems (by this comment).
In addition, a reference count GC good when exact timing is needed. So
it might be best for a language that should produce real time music.
Fortunately, it is easiest to implement.
So it suggests that Chuck might be best off to implement its own
lambda calculus on top of what already exits, just using a reference
counts GC, as Kassen mentioned was planned. That is, would anybody
like to implement it :-).
Anyway, it shows some of the concerns that must be addressed when
implementing lambda calculus.
Hans
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