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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e80a1497a689d8a5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Charles Hixson Subject: Re: Ammo-zilla Date: 1999/10/28 Message-ID: <3818D4F0.92FC4DC9@mail.earthlink.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 541838950 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <38120FAF.945ADD7D@hso.link.com> <7uutgd$87h$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <19991024.18033546@db3.max5.com> <38189268.43EB150F@mail.earthlink.net> <86ogdjtdwz.fsf@ppp-115-70.villette.club-internet.fr> X-Accept-Language: en X-Posted-Path-Was: not-for-mail Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-ELN-Date: 28 Oct 1999 22:57:46 GMT X-ELN-Insert-Date: Thu Oct 28 16:05:04 1999 Organization: MTC Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-10-28T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Laurent Guerby wrote: > Quite the contrary, garbage collection is allowed (but not mandated) > by the language (see section 13.11.3 of the Ada 95 RM), and it's of > course available for Ada compilers targetting the JVM. > > --LG I acknowledge the fact. This, however, does not make it into a component of the language. To get it with the JVM one must take the JVM. This does have it's advantages, but it also has disadvantages. The JVM was designed with Java in mind, and no other language can reasonably expect to match it as well. (Even for Java, many folk have objected sufficiently that some companies have written compilers that take Java all the way to machine code...a formidable task!) Also, and speaking particularlly to the point of garbage collection, I would prefer a collector that one could invoke as needed, or at least one that was easy to stop and start. I believe that the gc calls within Java are "hints".