[CM] Worthwhile to explore realtime-friendly GC strategies for s7?

[Iain Duncan]

Hello Bill and colleagues, this is mostly a question of curiosity, though
potentially also a question of "wonder what would make a good phd topic in
a couple of years".  I'm getting pretty good results running complete s7
sequencing environments in Max so long as my latency setting is high enough
to be able to handle some fairly large bursts. I run the gc automatically
every 100 to 300 ms and that seems to work pretty well at taming the
bursts, but they are still there, introducing constraints at what I can do
with lower latency (but surprisingly capable to be honest!).

I'm just curious to hear thoughts. Would trying to put a more real-time
friendly GC strategy into s7 be possible, feasible, worthwhile, etc? I know
next to nothing yet about the various ways GCs work, but I'm getting lots
of support (from my supervisors at least) for working on Scheme for Max and
Scheme for PD as worthwhile long term projects, and I'm definitely
interested in looking under the hood more.  I'm not really interested in
the no-GC approach used by things like Extempore and Carp, as the whole
advantage for me is the high level dynamic coding, but if making the GC
more real time friendly is not a fool's task, it could be something I might
be able to work towards in the long run

Thoughts welcome!
iain
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