Abstract Heresies

As an anonymous person pointed out, the knee in the curve is an illusion. Here is the same chart displayed with varying scales for the x an...

Once again, here is a plot of the actual garbage collection counts as a function of heap size: and we mention that we want to be “beyond t...

I had been thinking of improving the garbage collector in MIT/GNU Scheme. I carefully measured the current GC performance so I could quanti...

Suppose I have a program that, when run, allocates a total of 10 GiB (10×2 30 bytes). If it happens that I have more than 10 GiB of h...

MIT/GNU Scheme has a command line parameter, --heap , that allows one to specify the size of heap in 1024 word blocks. On a 32-bit machine,...

This is an excerpt from the forth coming LISP 1.5 Programmer's Manual . Provision is made in LISP 1.5 for allocating blocks of stor...

No Scheme or Lisp content today. I was amusing myself for a while with this email exchange. The strings of digits are courtesy www.random....