From: Robb.Nebbe@di.epfl.ch (Robb Nebbe)
Subject: Re: Reference Counting (was Re: Searching Method for Incremental Garbage Collection)
Date: 12 Dec 1994 09:36:04 GMT
Date: 1994-12-12T09:36:04+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1994Dec12.102851@di.epfl.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: D0KDGE.31F@inmet.camb.inmet.com
In article <D0KDGE.31F@inmet.camb.inmet.com>, bobduff@dsd.camb.inmet.com (Bob Duff) writes:
|>
|> But it seems to me that in a language like Ada, if a given object only
|> has one reference pointing to it, and that fact is known at compile
|> time, then you would almost always declare that object as a normal
|> stack-allocated object. So it would not be in the heap in the first
|> place, so reference counting would never occur.
|>
A lot of this time this is correct but there are many cases where
the lifetime of an object doesn't mesh with the concept of scope.
If the birth and death of an object are tied to external events
completely outside the control of the program then stack allocation
won't work.
Robb Nebbe
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1994-11-29 21:27 ` Reference Counting (was Re: Searching Method for Incremental Garbage Collection) R. William Beckwith
1994-11-30 2:27 ` Henry G. Baker
1994-11-30 18:59 ` Hans Boehm
1994-12-01 3:20 ` R. William Beckwith
1994-12-01 3:51 ` R. William Beckwith
1994-12-01 13:59 ` Henry G. Baker
1994-12-02 4:26 ` R. William Beckwith
1994-12-02 21:37 ` Hans Boehm
1994-12-03 15:17 ` Henry G. Baker
1994-12-09 22:07 ` Bob Duff
1994-12-11 23:59 ` Gary McKee
1994-12-12 5:04 ` Henry G. Baker
1994-12-12 12:46 ` R. William Beckwith
1994-12-16 19:35 ` Bob Duff
1994-12-17 20:36 ` Robert Dewar
1994-12-20 5:24 ` Henry G. Baker
1994-12-12 9:36 ` Robb Nebbe [this message]
1994-12-13 16:12 ` Henry G. Baker
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1994-11-30 16:39 ` David Weller
1994-11-30 17:58 ` Erik Naggum
1994-11-30 23:14 ` Michael Feldman
1994-12-09 14:19 ` Ada 95 is the name Tucker Taft
1994-12-09 22:33 ` Pat Rogers
1994-12-11 18:59 ` Jean D. Ichbiah
1994-12-11 20:05 ` Pat Rogers
1994-12-16 1:01 ` Bob Duff
1994-12-12 14:50 ` Garlington KE
1994-12-13 21:48 ` Tucker Taft
1994-12-14 12:44 ` Gentle
1994-12-14 17:34 ` Jean D. Ichbiah
1994-12-10 10:10 ` Marc Wachowitz
1994-12-11 21:37 ` Bob Duff
1994-12-02 23:41 ` Reference Counting (was Re: Searching Method for Incremental Garbage Collection) Bob Duff
1994-12-03 8:16 ` Bill Birch
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1994-12-01 4:58 ` Kevin Warne
1994-12-02 21:58 ` Hans Boehm
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1994-12-02 17:32 ` Henry G. Baker
1994-12-05 20:59 ` Robert Firth
1994-12-06 14:15 ` Robert Dewar
1994-12-04 1:06 ` Rick Busdiecker
1994-12-04 18:57 ` R. William Beckwith
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