Re: Ada 0Y plans for garbage collection?

["Robert I. Eachus" <rieachus@attbi.com>]

chris wrote:

> Intel are taking care of it... and not for the first time ;)
> 
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/32881.html

Actually, this is going to happen--as far as the hardware is concerned. 
  There are several types of memory that may replace DRAM in the next 
few years, polymer memory and MRAM seem the leading candidates right now.

But the common property of all these new memory types is that they are 
persistant, just like flash memory.  So assuming that the OS allows it, 
cycling power (or a power failure) won't require a reboot.  The OS will 
already be in memory and initialized.  Of course, the gotcha in that 
phrase is "if the OS allows" and if Windows doesn't and Linux does for 
some period of years, that could be the end of Windows.  (But I don't 
expect that. Windows currently supports sleep states in laptops that 
should be fairly similar in implementation.)

-- 
                                          Robert I. Eachus

Ryan gunned down the last of his third white wine and told himself it 
would all be over in a few minutes.  One thing he'd learned from 
Operation Beatrix: This field work wasn't for him. --from Red Rabbit by 
Tom Clancy.