From: mab@dst17.wdl.loral.com (Mark A Biggar)
Subject: Re: Garbage collection (was a spinoff of a spinoff of a GA diatribe)
Date: 1996/10/23
Date: 1996-10-23T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54lg65$5lc@wdl1.wdl.lmco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 54kk6g$is6$1@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU
In article <54kk6g$is6$1@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU> ok@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>"W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)" <wwgrol@PSESERV3.FW.HAC.COM> writes:
>>Explicit use of the heap for non-composite objects is not often done--why
>>would you?
>
>Because you don't *know* it's non-composite.
>Ada supports information hiding, remember?
Would not a simple hueristic like "if its 'SIZE < 64 put it on the stack,
otherwise the heap" handle this problem reasonably well?
--
Mark Biggar
mab@wdl.lmco.com
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1996-10-15 0:00 Garbage collection (was a spinoff of a spinoff of a GA diatribe) W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-18 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-23 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-10-23 0:00 ` Mark A Biggar [this message]
1996-10-23 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
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1996-10-17 0:00 Garbage collection (was a spinoff of a spinoff of a GA W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1996-10-20 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Garbage collection (was a spinoff of a spinoff of a GA diatribe) Robert Dewar
1996-10-21 0:00 Garbage collection (was a spinoff of a spinoff of a GA W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1996-10-22 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-25 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-10-24 0:00 ` Garbage collection (was a spinoff of a spinoff of a GA diatribe) Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-25 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-25 0:00 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-25 0:00 ` Brian R. Hanson
1996-10-25 0:00 ` Garbage collection (was a spinoff of a spinoff of a GA Jon S Anthony
1996-10-27 0:00 ` Garbage collection (was a spinoff of a spinoff of a GA diatribe) Robert Dewar
1996-10-30 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-31 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
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