Re: Question about garbage collection

[dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)]

Bob Duff said

<<The literature on so-called conservative GC is full of tricks to make
the probability of false-rentention lower, such as black-listing.  But
it still makes me nervous.  On the other hand, octopus GC without
compaction (or manual memory management without compaction) can cause
trouble, too, unless you're dealing with fixed-size blocks.  There's no
silver bullet -- memory leaks are possible no matter what.
>>

I disagree, it is quite possible to put bounds on possible 
fragmentation effects ....