From: Theodore Dennison <dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com>
Subject: Re: Does memory leak?
Date: 1995/03/30
Date: 1995-03-30T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3lec74$7n4@theopolis.orl.mmc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: milodD67p8t.5xK@netcom.com
John DiCamillo <milod@netcom.com> writes:
> Huh? Haven't you ever worked with a garbage-collected language?
> Languages like Smalltalk allow you to allocate stuff all day,
> and they don't even have a deallocate operation; the run-time
> system figures out when the program is done with a piece of storage
> and deallocates it for you.
>
Unfortunately, I never had a working copy of Smalltalk to learn from.
I have used Lisp, but as I remember, Lisp is different. Lisp doesn't
really have an "allocate" call. Lisp varibles are more like Ada
variables, so it is natural to let the compiler worry about managing
them. The point is, if a language provides "allocate" and "deallocate"
functions, you should "deallocate" what you "allocate".
T.E.D.
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Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1995-03-22 9:06 Does memory leak? Duncan Sands
1995-03-22 12:04 ` Fred J. McCall
1995-03-23 0:37 ` Robert I. Eachus
1995-03-23 13:54 ` Arthur Evans Jr
1995-03-23 16:23 ` Robert I. Eachus
1995-03-24 21:08 ` Norman H. Cohen
1995-03-28 0:00 ` Theodore Dennison
1995-03-31 0:00 ` Kent Mitchell
1995-03-23 2:08 ` T. Owen O'Malley
1995-03-24 11:44 ` Robert Dewar
1995-03-27 14:01 ` Theodore Dennison
1995-03-29 0:00 ` John DiCamillo
1995-03-30 0:00 ` Theodore Dennison [this message]
1995-03-30 0:00 ` Robb Nebbe
1995-03-30 0:00 ` Henry Baker
1995-04-04 0:00 ` John Baker
1995-04-05 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1995-04-06 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1995-04-07 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1995-04-05 0:00 ` Sverre Brubaek
1995-04-05 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1995-04-05 0:00 ` Ray Toal
1995-03-30 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1995-03-23 22:38 ` Tucker Taft
1995-03-24 1:57 ` Henry Baker
1995-03-24 17:30 ` Larry Kilgallen, LJK Software
1995-03-26 0:00 ` Henry Baker
1995-03-27 15:19 ` Norman H. Cohen
1995-03-27 14:35 ` Kennel
1995-03-24 12:29 ` Mike Meier
1995-03-24 10:46 ` Fred J. McCall
1995-03-24 15:44 ` David Weller
1995-03-25 1:55 ` kkrieser
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1995-03-27 9:36 Duncan Sands
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