From: stt@spock.camb.inmet.com (Tucker Taft)
Subject: Re: Does memory leak?
Date: 1995/04/05
Date: 1995-04-05T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <D6KtAI.JyG@inmet.camb.inmet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3ls2ku$qls@hacgate2.hac.com
John Baker (jbaker@thor.tu.hac.com) wrote:
: The Lisp i programmed in (symbolics) had a really nice feature --
: allocation to *named* areas of memory. You could allocate
: objects with differing life spans in different areas and then
: (at the appropriate time), wipe a whole named area and start over
: without having to destroy the objects individually. Very fast
: and easy to control. I'd like to see a feature like that in C++
: and ADA.
This is essentially equivalent to "mark/release." This is supported
in Ada 95 via user-defined storage pools. There is an example in the
Ada 95 Rationale on this (see section on "Storage Pool Management").
Similar things are possible in C++ by overloading the "new" operation.
: JB
-Tucker Taft stt@inmet.com
Intermetrics, Inc.
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Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1995-03-22 9:06 Does memory leak? Duncan Sands
1995-03-22 12:04 ` Fred J. McCall
1995-03-23 0:37 ` Robert I. Eachus
1995-03-23 13:54 ` Arthur Evans Jr
1995-03-23 16:23 ` Robert I. Eachus
1995-03-24 21:08 ` Norman H. Cohen
1995-03-28 0:00 ` Theodore Dennison
1995-03-31 0:00 ` Kent Mitchell
1995-03-23 2:08 ` T. Owen O'Malley
1995-03-24 11:44 ` Robert Dewar
1995-03-27 14:01 ` Theodore Dennison
1995-03-29 0:00 ` John DiCamillo
1995-03-30 0:00 ` Theodore Dennison
1995-03-30 0:00 ` Robb Nebbe
1995-03-30 0:00 ` Henry Baker
1995-04-04 0:00 ` John Baker
1995-04-05 0:00 ` Ray Toal
1995-04-05 0:00 ` Tucker Taft [this message]
1995-04-06 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1995-04-07 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1995-04-05 0:00 ` Sverre Brubaek
1995-04-05 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1995-03-30 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1995-03-23 22:38 ` Tucker Taft
1995-03-24 1:57 ` Henry Baker
1995-03-24 17:30 ` Larry Kilgallen, LJK Software
1995-03-26 0:00 ` Henry Baker
1995-03-27 15:19 ` Norman H. Cohen
1995-03-27 14:35 ` Kennel
1995-03-24 12:29 ` Mike Meier
1995-03-24 10:46 ` Fred J. McCall
1995-03-24 15:44 ` David Weller
1995-03-25 1:55 ` kkrieser
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1995-03-27 9:36 Duncan Sands
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