From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony)
Subject: Re: Garbage Collection in Ada
Date: 1996/10/25
Date: 1996-10-25T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <JSA.96Oct25141553@alexandria> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 01bbb910$f1e73f60$829d6482@joy.ericsson.se
In article <32701284.167E@mti.sgi.com> Hans-Juergen Boehm <boehm@mti.sgi.com> writes:
Lots of good stuff about why Robert Eachus' "theory of conservative GC" is
so far in the weeds you would have trouble finding it with the Space
Telescope.
For me, the most salient points are:
> I've routinely run fairly long running applications with more than that
> on 32-bit machines. So have a number of other readers, I suspect.
and
> Please try it for yourself. Until April I was reading my mail on a
> conservatively garbage collected system that couldn't possibly have
> stayed up for weeks by this chain of reasoning. (It did.) Many other
> systems that are in routine use couldn't possibly work either.
Exactly. The "theory" just doesn't account for the observed facts.
Hence, anyone who is even remotely "scientifically motivated" would
have to just toss it on the incorrect theory junk pile. While the
"science" in "computer science" has always struck me as dubious (at
best), one would hope that there would be at least _some_ adherence to
this basic principle.
/Jon
--
Jon Anthony
Organon Motives, Inc.
Belmont, MA 02178
617.484.3383
jsa@organon.com
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1996-10-13 0:00 Garbage Collection in Ada Jonas Nygren
1996-10-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-13 0:00 ` Lars Farm
1996-10-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <19961014115513529729@dialup105-2-16.swipnet.se>
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Lars Farm
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Lars Farm
1996-10-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-13 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-14 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-14 0:00 ` Lars Farm
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Lars Farm
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-19 0:00 ` Lars Farm
1996-10-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-20 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Geert Bosch
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Lars Farm
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Lars Farm
1996-10-23 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1996-10-24 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-10-20 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-19 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-14 0:00 ` John Howard
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Lars Farm
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Lars Farm
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Thomas Kendelbacher
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-23 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-10-23 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1996-10-14 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-16 0:00 ` whiting_ms@corning.com (Matt Whiting)
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-17 0:00 ` John Howard
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-18 0:00 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-18 0:00 ` Lars Farm
1996-10-20 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-18 0:00 ` Lars Farm
1996-10-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-20 0:00 ` Lars Farm
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Nicolay Belofastow
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-22 0:00 ` Lars Farm
1996-10-20 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-22 0:00 ` Mitch Gart
1996-10-23 0:00 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-27 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
1996-10-23 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1996-10-29 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-30 0:00 ` James Rogers
1996-10-30 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-30 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1996-10-30 0:00 ` Jonas Nygren
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Hannes Haug
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen FOU.TD/DELAB
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Rick Hudson
1996-10-18 0:00 ` Rick Hudson
1996-10-18 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-18 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Laurent Pautet
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-22 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-22 0:00 ` Tapani Rundgren
1996-10-23 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-24 0:00 ` Mitch Gart
1996-10-24 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-10-24 0:00 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-25 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony [this message]
1996-10-28 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-10-29 0:00 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
[not found] <01bbc6a3$4cf03480$829d6482@joy.ericsson.se>
1996-10-31 0:00 ` Mitch Gart
1996-10-31 0:00 ` Jonas Nygren
1996-11-03 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1996-11-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-11-06 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-11-01 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-11-06 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1996-11-07 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
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1996-11-02 0:00 Jon S Anthony
1996-10-22 0:00 Brian Rogoff
1996-10-11 0:00 C++ Standardization (was: Once again, Ada absent from DoD SBIR solicitation) Dave Wood
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Garbage Collection in Ada Thomas Kendelbacher
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