From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Question about garbage collection
Date: 1998/04/24
Date: 1998-04-24T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.893429476@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6hiv42$spu$1@news1.ucsd.edu
Billy said
<<Shouldn't be used. Unless, of course, one is comparing reference counting
to GC... :-) Even in a conservative GC, garbage will always _eventually_
be collected, and is never lost. In reference counting garbage can be
lost.
>>
Obviously we are not agreeing on terminology here. I am using
conservative GC to refer to the technique where you hold on to something
if there is anything that *looks like* a retaining address in some other
live block. Obviously with this definition you can hold on to arbitrary
amounts of garbage for arbtrarily long.
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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
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
1998-04-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
[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
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