# Joy running under Boehm-Demers-Weiser garbage collector!

## John Cowan — 2001-04-03 22:36:05

    I have managed to get Joy running under the BDW conservative

    garbage collector on my Linux-386 box, disabling the built-in

    GC.  This provides GC for both strings and list nodes, and

    allows a large memory with clean recovery (no segfaults)

    from out-of-memory conditions.  (Well, almost; you can get

    into a situation where Joy is still running, but there is

    no memory to enter any commands, since they are allocated

    onto a list.)

    Patches will be available later.

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