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From: Tucker Taft <stt@averstar.com>
Subject: Re: Automatic Garbage Collection?
Date: 1999/04/23
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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.
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