On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 4:24 AM, Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com> wrote: > It's not necessarily a bad idea to make the two orthogonal > though, as memory allocation is something belonging to a lower layer > than dynamically binding language routines to OS routines. One of the things that would become possible after organizing memory allocation to consistently use an API would be building perl with the Boehm garbage collector and ifdeffing out all the reference counting. For benchmarking purposes.Thread Previous | Thread Next