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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Q: memory management
Date: 1996/06/21
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Date: 1996-06-21T00:00:00+00:00
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Hannes said

"Imagine bignum arithmetic with garbage collection. If I'd have just
some bignums there would be too many garbage collections."

No, that's not a good example, there still would be no need in Ada to be
doing low level untyped allocation.

The necessary data structures can be described in Ada, and allocated
in a safely typed manner without additional space overhead.