Re: Ada 0Y plans for garbage collection?

["Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca>]

Robert I. Eachus wrote:
> chris wrote:
> 
>> Intel are taking care of it... and not for the first time ;)
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/32881.html
> 
> Actually, this is going to happen--as far as the hardware is concerned. 
>  There are several types of memory that may replace DRAM in the next few 
> years, polymer memory and MRAM seem the leading candidates right now.
> 
> But the common property of all these new memory types is that they are 
> persistant, just like flash memory.  So assuming that the OS allows it, 
> cycling power (or a power failure) won't require a reboot.  The OS will 
> already be in memory and initialized.  Of course, the gotcha in that 
> phrase is "if the OS allows" and if Windows doesn't and Linux does for 
> some period of years, that could be the end of Windows.  (But I don't 
> expect that. Windows currently supports sleep states in laptops that 
> should be fairly similar in implementation.)

Microsoft will still need to work on eliminating the need to reboot
after every software install, or after most "Windows Updates"
have completed. Not to mention the need to reboot after ref counters
for COM/DCOM objects get messed up due to abnormal process
termination events and such.

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Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg