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1722 :: Using the gccgo garbage collector: supported soon?

• jyelon (orginal) [2015-10-20T03:34:28+02:00] view original

  Hi,

  In june, Stefan Talpalaru succeeded in getting Nim to work with the gccgo garbage collector:

  http://forum.nim-lang.org/t/1278

  And then I see that there was some discussion of this here:

  https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/2851

  At the end, it looked to me as if Araq integrated the changes into the Nim development tree. Am I correct about this, that the plan is for this to be a supported choice of garbage collector?

  If so, this is very cool.

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• Araq (orginal) [2015-10-20T13:45:58+02:00] view original

  Yes, it is integrated, but it needs your help! ;-) Ensure it's tested via travis or Nim's buildbot on at least one machine. Otherwise patches like these inevitably bitrot. (And yes, I'm aware travis is currently red etc, we're working on it.)

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• andrea (orginal) [2015-10-20T14:28:04+02:00] view original

  Does Travis support (nightly) Nim? I would be happy to automatically test my own libraries vs. the latest version of the language.

  Right now, I do it on my own from time to time, but it would be great to have this available at the push of a button

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• andrea (orginal) [2015-10-20T16:37:29+02:00] view original

  Found this example

  I have made some small modifications (it was probably a little outdated), and it runs ok, see this, for example

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• jyelon (orginal) [2015-10-20T23:23:27+02:00] view original

  Interesting... I've never used travis or buildbot before. I'll look into them.

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