2026-08-04 13:16:08 <MrMobius    > thinking about how to keep track of garbage collected structures where they contain pointers to other garbage collected things
2026-08-04 13:17:21 <MrMobius    > maybe I can register them centrally somehow then sweep everything and readjust pointers based on a stored starting point
2026-08-04 13:18:50 <MrMobius    > pointers in the struct have to be tagged and registered somehow
2026-08-04 13:21:00 <veltas      > Yeah that is the big problem with any kind of 'smart' memory management, pointers to pointers
2026-08-04 13:21:03 <veltas      > Good luck
2026-08-04 13:22:32 <veltas      > Personally I would try and have unified data structures, so array, table, etc, so you can just walk those structures and know the layout and what's managed
2026-08-04 13:23:07 <veltas      > Thinking with my Lua hat
2026-08-04 15:39:08 <xentrac     > MrMobius: there are a lot of different approaches to that problem
2026-08-04 15:53:50 <MrMobius    > ya the problem is figuring out what's "managed" and not. it would work fine to list those pointers specifically until you forget to list one and disaster ensure
2026-08-04 15:54:08 <MrMobius    > seems best to find a way where declaration tags the pointer as managed
2026-08-04 16:17:31 <skveery     > There are compact memory management available with garbage collectors available in Forth.
2026-08-04 16:17:50 <skveery     > -available
2026-08-04 16:35:10 <veltas      > Source?
2026-08-04 16:44:07 <xentrac     > MrMobius: you might want to check out the Boehm-Demers-Weiser GC for C
2026-08-04 16:50:44 <bjorkintosh > RPN in the wild: tektronix 7854 waveform oscilloscope uses RPN https://w140.com/tekwiki/images/c/ce/42AX-4682.pdf
2026-08-04 17:15:23 <xentrac     > the X, Y, Z, T nomenclature is clearly HP-inspired
2026-08-04 17:18:09 <bjorkintosh > of course.
2026-08-04 17:18:20 <bjorkintosh > hp and tektronix both made 'scopes.
2026-08-04 17:18:30 <bjorkintosh > they had nerds in common, I bet.
2026-08-04 17:18:53 <bjorkintosh > engineers who used HP RPN calculators, no doubt.
2026-08-04 18:10:10 <xentrac     > yes, certainly
2026-08-04 20:38:52 <skveery     > veltas https://github.com/AntonErtl/garbage-collection