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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Garbage collection (was a spinoff of a spinoff of a GA diatribe)
Date: 1996/10/30
Date: 1996-10-30T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.846711737@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: JSA.96Oct29194646@alexandria


iJon said

"Well, 1) I used "can" specifically because I didn't want to assert
"are".  2) If you never need to collect, you will not even execute 1
instruction the entire run (let alone 1 for each free).  3) You can
write such very efficient "free"s even within the language - just roll
your own allocator (which is what I believe happens in real-time
contexts actually requiring "heap" style allocation).  4) we were not
talking about these sort of special "free"s..."

What do you mean "special frees", I was talking about the absolutely
standard free routine, accessed by the built-in routine unchecked_deallocation
in the Alsys compiler, not something I added on (Jon, perhaps you don't
know, but I worked for years for Alsys, and quite a bit of the x86 (x = 2 and
3) runtime work was my code, including the allocator!)





  reply	other threads:[~1996-10-30  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-10-21  0:00 Garbage collection (was a spinoff of a spinoff of a GA W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1996-10-22  0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-25  0:00   ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-10-24  0:00     ` Garbage collection (was a spinoff of a spinoff of a GA diatribe) Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-25  0:00       ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-25  0:00         ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-25  0:00     ` Brian R. Hanson
1996-10-25  0:00   ` Garbage collection (was a spinoff of a spinoff of a GA Jon S Anthony
1996-10-27  0:00     ` Garbage collection (was a spinoff of a spinoff of a GA diatribe) Robert Dewar
1996-10-30  0:00   ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-30  0:00     ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1996-10-31  0:00   ` Jon S Anthony
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1996-10-17  0:00 Garbage collection (was a spinoff of a spinoff of a GA W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1996-10-20  0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-21  0:00   ` Michael F Brenner
1996-10-21  0:00     ` Garbage collection (was a spinoff of a spinoff of a GA diatribe) Robert Dewar
1996-10-15  0:00 W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1996-10-16  0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-17  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-18  0:00   ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-16  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-23  0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-10-23  0:00   ` Mark A Biggar
1996-10-23  0:00     ` Larry Kilgallen
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