From: hbaker@netcom.com (Henry G. Baker)
Subject: Re: Reference Counting (was Re: Searching Method for Incremental Garbage Collection)
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 1994 17:32:25 GMT
Date: 1994-12-02T17:32:25+00:00 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: D06r8x.JBy@inmet.camb.inmet.com
In article <D06r8x.JBy@inmet.camb.inmet.com> mg@asp.camb.inmet.com (Mitch Gart) writes:
>then RC sounds like a reasonable memory reclamation scheme for Ada.
You should be prepared for huge overheads when updating reference
counts on shared objects in a multiple-threaded (multiple-tasked)
program. (Not that GC in such an environment is all that easy, but RC
is no panacea either.)
Henry Baker
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1994-12-02 17:32 ` Henry G. Baker [this message]
1994-12-05 20:59 ` Reference Counting (was Re: Searching Method for Incremental Garbage Collection) Robert Firth
1994-12-06 14:15 ` Robert Dewar
1994-12-04 1:06 ` Rick Busdiecker
1994-12-04 18:57 ` R. William Beckwith
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[not found] ` <3bfprn$okr@scipio.cyberstore.ca>
1994-11-29 21:27 ` R. William Beckwith
1994-11-30 2:27 ` Henry G. Baker
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1994-11-30 16:39 ` David Weller
1994-11-30 17:58 ` Erik Naggum
1994-11-30 23:14 ` Michael Feldman
1994-12-02 23:41 ` Bob Duff
1994-12-03 8:16 ` Bill Birch
1994-11-30 18:59 ` Hans Boehm
1994-12-01 3:20 ` R. William Beckwith
1994-12-01 3:51 ` R. William Beckwith
1994-12-01 13:59 ` Henry G. Baker
1994-12-02 4:26 ` R. William Beckwith
1994-12-02 21:37 ` Hans Boehm
1994-12-03 15:17 ` Henry G. Baker
1994-12-09 22:07 ` Bob Duff
1994-12-11 23:59 ` Gary McKee
1994-12-12 5:04 ` Henry G. Baker
1994-12-12 12:46 ` R. William Beckwith
1994-12-16 19:35 ` Bob Duff
1994-12-17 20:36 ` Robert Dewar
1994-12-20 5:24 ` Henry G. Baker
1994-12-12 9:36 ` Robb Nebbe
1994-12-13 16:12 ` Henry G. Baker
[not found] ` <3be0mh$1p7@ga <3bii2g$kn2@news.parc.xerox.com>
1994-12-01 4:58 ` Kevin Warne
1994-12-02 21:58 ` Hans Boehm
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