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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
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Date: 1996-10-23T00:00:00+00:00
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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?

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Mark Biggar
mab@wdl.lmco.com