From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f5d71,51df4c76a6962950 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5d71,public X-Google-Thread: 1008e3,51df4c76a6962950 X-Google-Attributes: gid1008e3,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,51df4c76a6962950 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: Ada GC (was about Java VM) Date: 1996/02/17 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 139888478 references: <4fogcg$7d3@nntpa.cb.att.com> organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.java,comp.lang.modula3 Date: 1996-02-17T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Scott asked: "About 2 weeks I posted a question regarding a product called "Great Circle" that is advertised in the latest issue of Object magazine (p 63). The ad claims to provide garbage collection for C/C++ by simply relinking. They also claim to have used there product in X Windows and improved performance on the "X11 performance benchmarks by 25%". Since I never saw my post nor any follow ups or references to it, here it is again. Anyway, has anybody used this or a similar product? What is the possibility that it might be used with GNAT if it performs as advertised, and as I said before, I have no reason to believe that it doesn't." It is perfectly possible to write a conservative garbage collector that runs as described above, and sure, to the extent it works, it probably works fine with GNAT.