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Subject: Re: Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative garbage collector and GNAT
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In article <rw27k7k7rgo.fsf@lbrenta.corp.emc.com>, Ludovic Brenta <ludovic.brenta@insalien.org> writes:

> Yes.  I've never really liked GC myself, but the paper that Martin
> mentions says that programmers spend up to 30% of their time doing
> (and debugging) memory management, and that perhaps this 30% could be
> better spent elsewhere.

Does that paper say _Ada_ programmers spend that much time ?

If so, then programmers for some other languages must spend 110% of their
time debugging memory managment issues.