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From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony)
Subject: Re: Garbage Collection in Ada
Date: 1996/10/16
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In article <19961014115513529729@dialup105-2-16.swipnet.se> lars.farm@ite.mh.se (Lars Farm) writes:

> Fortunately it is very easy to get GC in C++ if one is willing to
> sacrifice portability. All it takes is to link Boehms allocator and it
> works beautifully without any other changes. In spite of its
> unportability label it works on a large number of operating systems and
> on many different development systems, right off the net. Is using a
> good GC that simple in Ada dev systems too?

Well, using the Boehm collector should be.  But, while I am pro-GC in
Ada, I am not a fan of the use of a conservative collector for Ada.
I'm not convinced it would be worth it.

/Jon
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