[Reisen]

One of the best intros to generational garbage collection is on chicken internals[1]. If you've ever wondered about GCs I thoroughly recommend giving the article a read, it's full of interesting asides as well.

I think I would use chicken more but usually when reaching for scheme it seems to be because I want something embeddable. Even so, extremely excited about this release!

[1]: https://www.more-magic.net/posts/internals-gc.html

[sjamaan]

CHICKEN is just as suitable for embedding in C programs as for embedding C code in CHICKEN: https://wiki.call-cc.org/man/5/Embedding

The complete CHICKEN 5 runtime should be a bit smaller already than the CHICKEN 4 runtime, because we dropped some stuff, but if the runtime is still too large for your needs, you can make a custom build that omits certain components. Here's a small tutorial on how to do that: https://wiki.call-cc.org/generating%20the%20smallest%20possi...

[tsukikage]

JOOI, what's your embeddable Scheme of choice?

[bjoli]

Guile or Chibi depending on what I want. Guile is about 2mb and seriously fast. Chibi is tiny and not very fasy.

[zelly]

Do you statically link Guile? Guile is a pleasure to work with, but I was under the impression that you can’t embed Guile because it’s GPL.

[admax88q]

Guile ls LGPL.

You can statically link to LGPL libraries so long as you also provide your program in "object form" so that the user can re-link their program with a different version of guile.

See: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#LGPLStaticVsDynami...

[nrclark]

Surprised to see Guile weighing in at 2mb - my experience with it on Linux was a much larger install. What makes the Linux packages so much larger out of curiosity? I profiled it at more like 50-80mb when I compiled it a couple of months ago.

[bjoli]

I meant weight as in extra RAM usage for the application I use it in.