From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,19140af19dfa6e01 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-15 02:10:12 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.uchicago.edu!yellow.newsread.com!netaxs.com!newsread.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsmm00.sul.t-online.com!t-online.de!news.t-online.com!not-for-mail From: Martin Krischik Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada 0Y plans for garbage collection? Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 08:48:49 +0200 Organization: AdaCL Message-ID: <3050503.hLY3razknJ@linux1.krischik.com> References: Reply-To: krischik@users.sourceforge.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1063616862 04 30013 pAbnV9UXTfYZIc 030915 09:07:42 X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@t-online.de X-ID: SAibqEZL8eZ0zkqQDPxdV5eG6PLULbcI5xhO8gBM6nan1x9LJxF+Yn User-Agent: KNode/0.7.2 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:42514 Date: 2003-09-15T08:48:49+02:00 List-Id: Matthew Heaney wrote: > olehjalmar kristensen - Sun Microsystems - Trondheim Norway > writes: > >> I still think the way it was done in Modula-3 gives you the best of >> both worlds. If you want garbage collection, you allocate from a >> different pool. If you don't want it you don't use it, and there is no >> overhead. > > This would be the case in Ada, too, were an Ada vendor to provide such a > pool (which the language was specifically designed to allow). > However, I don't think there are any Ada vendors that provide such a > pool, mostly because there has not been a market for it. GCC 3.3 will provide such a pool for all GCC langunages. An Ada binding takes less 50 of code (w/o comments, package specs etc. pp.). But then GCC does not have a "verndor" ;-). With Regards Martin -- mailto://krischik@users.sourceforge.net http://www.ada.krischik.com