From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Question about garbage collection
Date: 1998/04/20
Date: 1998-04-20T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.893122395@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6hf8jj$p9a$1@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU
Fergus says
<<>I assume this is a conservative garbage collector. This is not the same as
>true GC, but is often quite effective.
Damning with faint praise?
>>
No, I did not mean to be that negative at all. I meant it when I said this
is often quite effective. It is easy to construct cases where it fails
completely (e.g. a circular structure that in its entirety could be
collected), but in practice, it works pretty well a lot of the time,
and in an application where the only penalty for not collecting perfectly
is performance rather than malfunction, conservative garbage collection
is attractive precisely because it is simple, reliable, and does NOT
require all sorts of complexity added to the compiler.
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-04-18 0:00 Question about garbage collection Centaury
1998-04-18 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-04-19 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1998-04-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-04-20 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1998-04-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1998-04-21 0:00 ` raw
[not found] ` <ErqJro.9BI@world.std.com>
1998-04-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-04-21 0:00 ` William Tanksley
[not found] ` <ErvsM0.Bu7@world.std.com>
1998-04-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <Es39LE.B5o@world.std.com>
1998-04-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-04-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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