From: gateley@m2.csc.ti.com (John Gateley)
Subject: Re: Garbage Collection
Date: 14 Dec 88 23:30:41 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <65713@ti-csl.CSNET> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3861@hubcap.UUCP
A good example of when garbage collection is needed for readability:
An infinite precision integer arithmatic package (or ADT, or module,
or whatever you want to call it). Infinite precision integers will
take up an unknown amount of memory to represent. Either you have to
explicitly deallocate them when you are done, or let GC take care of them.
But now consider the uses of integers in programs, they are used all over
the place, with no regard for careful deallocation. Converting a program
to use infinite precision integers will be very difficult, since it is
hard to figure exactly when the program is 'finished' with a particular
number.
John
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Thread overview: 88+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1988-12-03 22:53 Collective response to := messages Erland Sommarskog
1988-12-04 20:41 ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1988-12-05 5:47 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1988-12-05 12:45 ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1988-12-06 1:54 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1988-12-06 20:43 ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1988-12-07 15:22 ` Collective response to := messa ron
1988-12-11 19:11 ` Garbage Collection William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1988-12-12 5:29 ` John Gateley
1988-12-12 18:19 ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1988-12-13 1:02 ` Alexander Klaiber
1988-12-13 18:37 ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1988-12-13 23:36 ` Alexander Klaiber
1988-12-14 3:26 ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1988-12-14 17:16 ` Stephe Leake
1988-12-15 14:43 ` Thomas P. Morris
1988-12-14 23:30 ` John Gateley [this message]
1988-12-15 19:25 ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1988-12-19 16:12 ` John Gateley
1988-12-20 19:34 ` Bill Wolfe
1988-12-16 0:49 ` Keys are references, too (was Re: Garbage Collection) Badger BA 64810
1988-12-18 18:42 ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1988-12-13 20:22 ` Garbage Collection William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1988-12-14 6:40 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1988-12-14 17:43 ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1989-01-02 17:51 ` ryer
1989-01-05 8:31 ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1989-01-06 16:58 ` ryer
1989-01-08 19:24 ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
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1999-08-18 0:00 garbage collection Ronald Ayoub
1999-08-18 0:00 ` Gisle S�lensminde
1999-08-18 0:00 ` Pascal MALAISE
1999-08-20 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-08-18 0:00 ` tmoran
1999-08-18 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-08-19 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-08-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-20 0:00 ` tmoran
1999-08-20 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-08-20 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-08-20 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-08-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-21 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-08-21 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-08-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-21 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-08-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-18 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-08-19 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-08-19 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-08-20 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-08-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-24 0:00 Garbage Collection H Brett Bolen
1989-01-10 19:16 Erland Sommarskog
1989-01-11 16:10 ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1989-01-06 22:17 Erland Sommarskog
1989-01-08 18:40 ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1989-01-09 3:56 ` Barry Margolin
1989-01-09 16:22 ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1989-01-09 19:00 ` Barry Margolin
1989-01-10 2:50 ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1989-01-11 9:22 ` Barry Margolin
1989-01-11 16:01 ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1989-01-11 18:21 ` Barry Margolin
1989-01-12 2:43 ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1989-01-15 7:14 ` Barry Margolin
1989-01-05 23:26 Erland Sommarskog
1988-12-31 0:04 Erland Sommarskog
1989-01-05 8:13 ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1988-12-28 19:20 Erland Sommarskog
1988-12-30 0:52 ` Bill Wolfe
1988-12-26 23:37 Erland Sommarskog
1988-12-27 21:24 ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1988-12-28 16:09 ` Snorri Agnarsson
1988-12-30 0:46 ` Bill Wolfe
1988-12-27 22:24 ` Bob Hathaway
1988-12-18 20:12 Erland Sommarskog
1988-12-20 19:04 ` Bill Wolfe
1988-12-13 20:07 Erland Sommarskog
1988-12-15 19:13 ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
[not found] <145@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
[not found] ` <272@fang.ATT.COM>
1988-03-29 13:47 ` From Modula to Oberon Denis Fortin
1988-03-30 15:32 ` Lawrence Crowl
1988-03-30 22:41 ` Hans Boehm
1988-03-31 6:27 ` Garbage Collection Richard Harter
1988-03-31 19:49 ` Hans Boehm
1988-04-01 5:43 ` Richard Harter
1988-04-01 18:43 ` Hans Boehm
1988-04-04 23:14 ` 00704a-Liber
1986-03-16 22:24 Garbage collection "Alexander L. Wolf"
[not found] <1979@mit-eddi.UUCP>
[not found] ` <2144@mit-eddie.UUCP>
1984-06-18 19:28 ` Abstraction In Ada Jon Mauney
1984-06-22 7:47 ` Doug Alan
1984-06-25 2:15 ` brad
1984-07-17 10:34 ` garbage collection Eric Smith
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