From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony)
Subject: Re: Garbage collection (was a spinoff of a spinoff of a GA diatribe)
Date: 1996/10/16
Date: 1996-10-16T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <JSA.96Oct16182502@alexandria> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9610152135.AA13753@most
In article <9610152135.AA13753@most> "W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)" <wwgrol@PSESERV3.FW.HAC.COM> writes:
> 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.
This just isn't accurate. Sure, you can go a reasonable way with
this. But finalization stuff just doesn't catch many typical cases
and it is _way_ expensive. Also, you have to put in all the effort
for something which would be directly useable.
Actually, I've found that user defined storage pools are much more
important in this context.
> So, compared to the above, how big is the payoff of having GC imposed on
> you by the implementation?
Big.
/Jon
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Jon Anthony
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1996-10-15 0:00 Garbage collection (was a spinoff of a spinoff of a GA diatribe) W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony [this message]
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-18 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
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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