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Jank development update – Moving to LLVM IR

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188 points refset | 3 comments | 15 Oct 24 06:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.463s | 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. gaze ◴[17 Oct 24 13:58 UTC] No.41869742[source]▶
Have you considered MPS? https://github.com/Ravenbrook/mps .
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2. refset ◴[17 Oct 24 14:31 UTC] No.41870047[source]▶
I'm just an enthusiastic bystander so I don't know the answer. Hopefully Jeaye can chime in.
3. Jeaye ◴[17 Oct 24 17:59 UTC] No.41871994[source]▶
Yep! MPS was considered, but Boehm was significantly easier to get going. For jank's next GC, the plan is to use MMTK.