[chuck-users] Chuck garbage collection needs a manual

[Hans Aberg]

On 7 Sep 2010, at 00:20, Kassen wrote:

>> It has also been discussed other types of GC. A problem with a  
>> collecting GC is that it must work with the perfect timing that  
>> ChucK has, which syncs every sample time (at about 44 kHz).
>
> Indeed. But we don't have to calculate a sample every sample; we  
> only need to calculate a block every block; there is some leeway.

What are these blocks? I thought Chuck is running in one thread. It is  
though true that one could free the marker of the memory  
synchronously, and let a GC in a separate thread collect inasmuch it  
gets time for it.