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Giggle release 0.7

I've released Giggle version 0.7.
It's fairly stable now. I've used it for some programming projects.

It includes some speed tests (bin/speed) which compare the different garbage collectors to manual malloc/free, new/delete, and to the Boehm collector. The Boehm collector wins, hands-down, on my computers. So Giggle's official recommendation for what garbage collector to use is the Boehm collector. Read more about it in the ``Use Boehm'' section of the Giggle documentation (http://giggle.sourceforge.net/giggle/node3.html).... read more

Posted by Gene Michael Stover 2002-04-30