From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Subject: Re: Garbage Collection in Ada
Date: 1996/10/24
Date: 1996-10-24T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54mrhq$bqn$1@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.845809398@merv
dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
>Actually, as I have noted before, I am dubious about real applications
>depending on conservative GC, so I can't see it being an integral part
>of a language implementation. For example, I can see putting a conservative
>collector interface into some user library for GNAT, but not into the main
>language library.
A conserative garbage collector was an intrinsic part of Interlisp-D.
All references from the heap were precise, but the stack was scanned
conservatively (in order to make the processing of unboxed floats cheap).
The Quintus Prolog garbage collector had a similar problem with floats,
and took the conservative route.
These were not after-the-fact off-the-shelf collectors for an uncooperative
language, but special purpose collectors co-designed with the implementation
of languages designed for garbage collection. This kind of conservative
collector worked very well indeed in practice.
--
Mixed Member Proportional---a *great* way to vote!
Richard A. O'Keefe; http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/%7Eok; RMIT Comp.Sci.
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1996-10-13 0:00 Garbage Collection in Ada Jonas Nygren
1996-10-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-13 0:00 ` Lars Farm
1996-10-13 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <19961014115513529729@dialup105-2-16.swipnet.se>
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Lars Farm
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Lars Farm
1996-10-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-14 0:00 ` John Howard
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Lars Farm
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Lars Farm
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Thomas Kendelbacher
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-23 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-10-23 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-14 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-14 0:00 ` Lars Farm
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Lars Farm
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-19 0:00 ` Lars Farm
1996-10-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-20 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Geert Bosch
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Lars Farm
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Lars Farm
1996-10-23 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1996-10-24 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe [this message]
1996-10-20 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-19 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1996-10-14 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-16 0:00 ` whiting_ms@corning.com (Matt Whiting)
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-17 0:00 ` John Howard
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-18 0:00 ` Lars Farm
1996-10-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-20 0:00 ` Lars Farm
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-22 0:00 ` Lars Farm
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Nicolay Belofastow
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-20 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-22 0:00 ` Mitch Gart
1996-10-23 0:00 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-27 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
1996-10-23 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1996-10-29 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-30 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-30 0:00 ` James Rogers
1996-10-30 0:00 ` Jonas Nygren
1996-10-30 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1996-10-18 0:00 ` Lars Farm
1996-10-20 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-18 0:00 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Hannes Haug
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen FOU.TD/DELAB
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Rick Hudson
1996-10-18 0:00 ` Rick Hudson
1996-10-18 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-18 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Laurent Pautet
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-22 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-22 0:00 ` Tapani Rundgren
1996-10-23 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-24 0:00 ` Mitch Gart
1996-10-24 0:00 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-24 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-10-25 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-28 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-10-29 0:00 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
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1996-11-02 0:00 Jon S Anthony
[not found] <01bbc6a3$4cf03480$829d6482@joy.ericsson.se>
1996-10-31 0:00 ` Mitch Gart
1996-10-31 0:00 ` Jonas Nygren
1996-11-03 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1996-11-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-11-06 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-11-01 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-11-06 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1996-11-07 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-10-22 0:00 Brian Rogoff
1996-10-11 0:00 C++ Standardization (was: Once again, Ada absent from DoD SBIR solicitation) Dave Wood
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Garbage Collection in Ada Thomas Kendelbacher
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