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13:47:17 bike so basic evaluation of whippet: should be mostly fine for our purposes, but we'll have to do some work with the compiler and runtime to make it possible

13:47:27 bike but we have to do that for basically any garbage collector other than boehm anyway

13:50:12 bike our runtime is sort of a huge mess so i'm going to keep building up from smaller model systems, i think

13:50:28 bike but i might go back to this build process thing first, since the GC isn't going to be an overnight project either

14:40:01 paulapatience Oh, cool, I didn't know you were investigating Whippet for this.

14:40:24 paulapatience Was that Rust GC library still being investigated or not? The name started with M I think.

14:44:44 bike mmtk. that's also on the list, yes. but it's a lot more complicated, which has its pros and cons

14:45:14 bike we had an intern working with it over the summer, but they didn't get much running, whereas i got this dumb scheme using whippet in like two days

14:50:27 bike on the other hand whippet is still under construction, and now my code won't work on yesterday's commit. oh well

14:51:01 bike clang is also stricter than gcc and doesn't like atomic store/load being used on non atomic pointers

14:52:45 bike let's see if i can just lbithely cast

14:52:48 bike blithely*

14:59:26 bike i can (lol) but whippet is also using malloc.h, which as far as i can tell is totally nonstandard

15:00:30 bike this problem with atomics is all over.

15:11:50 bike the C standards people probably had a good reason to have atomic types rather than just letting you atomically load and store from places, but it's pretty annoying