Re: Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative garbage collector and GNAT

[Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com>]

And putting it in is not really likely to get them to abandon whatever 
they are already using and start using Ada. We aren't going to make 
*everyone* happy, so perhaps picking carefully who we should urinate-off 
is the wiser course of action. Adding GC to get the AI crowd would 
likely upset more people than it made happy.

MDC

Larry Kilgallen wrote:
> 
> 
> Garbage collection is important to particular problem domains like AI.
> People who need it do not appear to be a significant portion of the
> Ada-using public.


-- 
======================================================================
Marin David Condic
I work for: http://www.belcan.com/
My project is: http://www.jast.mil/

Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ a c m . o r g

     "In general the art of government consists in taking as
     much money as possible from one class of citizens to give
     to the other."

         --  Voltaire
======================================================================