From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5c51cff2651b47f4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-10-19 19:52:49 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!europa.netcrusader.net!128.223.220.26!arclight.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.ksu.edu!nntp.ksu.edu!news.okstate.edu!dvdeug From: dvdeug@x8b4e516e.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: access type question (maybe a little silly) Date: 20 Oct 2000 02:01:49 GMT Organization: Oklahoma State University Message-ID: <8so92d$8a23@news.cis.okstate.edu> References: Reply-To: dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org NNTP-Posting-Host: x8b4e516e.dhcp.okstate.edu User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.2 (Linux) Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:1432 Date: 2000-10-20T02:01:49+00:00 List-Id: On Thu, 19 Oct 2000 20:09:33 -0500, Pat Rogers wrote: >If you're running an application that executes for a very long time, >then you might want to do the reclamation. If you're running a >desktop, one-off, short-lived application, then it probably won't be >worth the effort. I've never seen a program big enough to need access types that wasn't worth it to try and collect it. I have, on the other hand, seen several small programs become quite a nuiscence by eating up hundreds of megabytes of memory in seconds. If you've got a program that inputs files, remember that the next guy will try to load a 100 MB picture/a half gig of mp3s/ the collected works of Shakespeare through your program. -- David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org http://dvdeug.dhis.org If you wish to strive for peace of soul then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire. -- Friedrich Nietzsche