gc issues

[D-Man]

On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 06:04:23AM -0700, e toffi wrote:
| hello
| 
| lets say i wanted to integrate 2 languages with gc's (lua,
| [small]eiffel, python, javascript).
| 
| how do i keep the gc's from eating each other?
| 
| i know this will require some *very* careful prgramming techniques.
| can anyone point me in the right direction?

ILU might help (from Xerox PARC, there is a Debian package).  Or use
XML-RPC or SOAP or CORBA and don't bring both interpreters into the
same process.  (C)Python plays well with other GC implementations
because it uses ref counting.  It doesn't need to traverse the pointer
tree on the heap.

-D