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A whippet waypoint / Nofl: A Precise Immix

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This kind of abstraction is important, because in this domain it’s easy to convince oneself that a given algorithm is amazing, just based on vibes; to stay grounded, I find I always need to compare what I am doing to some fixed point of reference. Firstly, one of my language communities is Scheme, which was a research hotbed some 20-25 years ago, which means many practitioners—people I would be pleased to call peers—came up through the PhD factories and published many interesting results in academic venues. I am hoping that sometime next week I will have excised all the uses of the BDW (Boehm GC) API in Guile, which will finally allow for testing Nofl in more than a laboratory environment.

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