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Jank development update – Moving to LLVM IR

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188 points refset | 1 comments | 15 Oct 24 06:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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fire_lake ◴[17 Oct 24 08:04 UTC] No.41867415[source]▶
IIUIR, Clojure uses the JVM garbage collector to clean up memory.

How does Jank do this whilst keeping the user code… still Clojure?

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refset ◴[17 Oct 24 09:02 UTC] No.41867713[source]▶
Jank uses Boehm GC (written in C, also used by the likes of Inkscape, Guile and Mono) - it is discussed a little in the previous blog posts, e.g. https://jank-lang.org/blog/2023-07-08-object-model/
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1. k_g_b_ ◴[17 Oct 24 10:24 UTC] No.41868176[source]▶
Guile seems to prepare to switch to https://github.com/wingo/whippet - a GC C library that can wrap Boehm/BDW but also provides more (and less) advanced GC options. Should be a good option for Jank and similar projects as well - especially if they already use BDW.