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From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony)
Subject: Re: Garbage collection (was a spinoff of a spinoff of a GA diatribe)
Date: 1996/10/31
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In article <dewar.846711737@merv> dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:

> iJon said
>...
> contexts actually requiring "heap" style allocation).  4) we were not
> talking about these sort of special "free"s..."
>
> What do you mean "special frees", I was talking about the absolutely
> standard free routine, accessed by the built-in routine
> unchecked_deallocation in the Alsys compiler, not something I added

My mistake.  I erroneously was in the context of an implementation
just utilizing off the shelf RTL stuff from the typical OS (UNI*,
Windoze, etc.)  You are of course correct that there would be nothing
"special" here if it was just out of the box with the implementation.
Sorry.


> on (Jon, perhaps you don't know, but I worked for years for Alsys,
> and quite a bit of the x86 (x = 2 and 3) runtime work was my code,
> including the allocator!)

And given your other work (that I do know something of), I am sure it
was exceptionally good stuff!  Actually, I had heard something about
your work there somewhere, but I can't recall when, where, the
context, etc...  I guess I'm getting old... :-|

/Jon
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