From: "W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)" <wwgrol@PSESERV3.FW.HAC.COM>
Subject: Garbage collection (was a spinoff of a spinoff of a GA diatribe)
Date: 1996/10/15
Date: 1996-10-15T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9610152135.AA13753@most> (raw)
It seems to me that auto-GC is no longer worth arguing about
with regard to Ada.
Stack objects are collected as a side effect of the call stack mechanism.
Implementations that transparently put "stack" variables on the heap
usually automatically deallocate at end of scope.
Explicit use of the heap for non-composite objects is not often done--why
would you?
And with composites, the provider of the data type has the complete freedom
of choice to extend a controlled type with GC, extend a controlled type
without GC, or not use a controlled type.
So, compared to the above, how big is the payoff of having GC imposed on
you by the implementation?
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1996-10-15 0:00 W. Wesley Groleau (Wes) [this message]
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Garbage collection (was a spinoff of a spinoff of a GA diatribe) Jon S Anthony
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-18 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-23 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-10-23 0:00 ` Mark A Biggar
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 ` 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
1996-10-25 0:00 ` Brian R. Hanson
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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