From: Tucker Taft <stt@averstar.com>
Subject: Re: Automatic Garbage Collection?
Date: 1999/04/23
Date: 1999-04-23T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <372084D7.78E7DE3A@averstar.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7fonde$pmr$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com
Robert Dewar wrote:
>
> In article <371F4443.EAA814F1@averstar.com>,
> Tucker Taft <stt@averstar.com> wrote:
> > I don't know of any non-JVM-based Ada implementation
> > that supports "precise" garbage collection.
>
> I thought that typical JVM's in practice use conservative
> GC, and not "precise" GC.
I believe the newer ones are generally "precise."
The original Sun JVM used a conservative GC, but I think
their new JVM uses a precise "train" GC algorithm.
--
-Tucker Taft stt@averstar.com http://www.averstar.com/~stt/
Technical Director, Distributed IT Solutions (www.averstar.com/tools)
AverStar (formerly Intermetrics, Inc.) Burlington, MA USA
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1999-04-22 0:00 Automatic Garbage Collection? ken_shiro
1999-04-22 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-04-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-23 0:00 ` Tucker Taft [this message]
1999-04-22 0:00 ` dennison
1999-04-22 0:00 ` dennison
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