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what do you think about the ephemeron-guardian-weak pairs trifecta for manually managing memory in a garbage collected language? I've just started playing with it in chez, but havent thought of a good test case for it yet.
also how does SBCL memory management work? for some reason I think I recall that much of its tooling for bare bones bit twiddling resides on the FFI side of things, but its quite sophisticated, with FFI not specifically being tied to interfacing with other languages.
you are lucky: @hayley worked on the SBCL GC, so she can answer.
My 2cents are that, apart the GC, CL gives you a lot of power for optimizing memory management because: with MOP you can customize the memory layout of CLOS objects; if performances are important, you can work on big-chunk of data, stored in arrays, and here CL can give you a lot of options for specifying their format. In both cases, you are reducing the work for the GC, because you have less objects, and you can control (at least partially) how they are stored.
It is a lot of power, that few PL offers.
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