From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony)
Subject: Re: newbie Q: storage management
Date: 1997/05/08
Date: 1997-05-08T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <JSA.97May7210852@alexandria> (raw)
Robert sez:
> I would not talk about straw-man implementations, I would talk about
> real usable implementations. It is much more important that
> something be real and usable, than it is that it be in the
> standard.
Agreed. This has never been in question, IMO.
> If someone did a nice GC implementation for GNAT, and people started
> using it, then a lot of the problem is solved.
False. You can pretty much get something like this now using a bolt
on fully conservative collector. As you note, portability between
compilers is a significant part of the problem. As I've noted before,
this alone would make the above scenario irrelevant for us (and we're
someone who really wants GC!) But that is not all. There are support
issues, synchronization issues with GNAT releases, platform
portability issues, etc. At the moment, wrt GNAT, the only plausible
way for these issues to be sorted out would be if the "someone"
mentioned above turned out to be ACT.
/Jon
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Jon Anthony
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Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-05-08 0:00 Jon S Anthony [this message]
1997-05-09 0:00 ` newbie Q: storage management Robert Dewar
1997-05-09 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-05-10 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-05-10 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-05-12 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-05-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-10 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-05-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-13 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
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1997-04-29 0:00 Kaz Kylheku
1997-04-30 0:00 ` Samuel A. Mize
1997-04-30 0:00 ` kaz
1997-04-30 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-05-02 0:00 ` Samuel A. Mize
1997-05-02 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-05-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-05 0:00 ` Samuel A. Mize
1997-05-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-05-08 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-05-08 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1997-05-09 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-05-09 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1997-05-13 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-05-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-13 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-05-09 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-05-09 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-05-10 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-05-12 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-05-09 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-05-10 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-05-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-06 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1997-05-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-09 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1997-05-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-07 0:00 ` Jeff Carter
1997-05-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-03 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-05-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-05 0:00 ` Samuel A. Mize
1997-05-04 0:00 ` Kevin Cline
1997-05-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-02 0:00 ` Samuel A. Mize
1997-05-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-30 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-05-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-04 0:00 ` Kaz Kylheku
1997-05-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-30 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1997-04-30 0:00 ` Marinus van der Lugt
1997-04-30 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-05-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-02 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1997-05-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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