From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f4fd2,8e3b3db66f3b0061 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4fd2,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,8e3b3db66f3b0061 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: fd443,8e3b3db66f3b0061 X-Google-Attributes: gidfd443,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,8e3b3db66f3b0061 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,474d28ddf953b3c1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-12-02 10:59:32 PST Newsgroups: alt.lang.design,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.ada Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!hbaker From: hbaker@netcom.com (Henry G. Baker) Subject: Re: Reference Counting (was Re: Searching Method for Incremental Garbage Collection) Message-ID: Organization: nil References: Date: Fri, 2 Dec 1994 17:32:25 GMT Xref: bga.com alt.lang.design:151 comp.lang.c:33042 comp.lang.c++:39285 comp.lang.lisp:4253 comp.lang.ada:8191 Date: 1994-12-02T17:32:25+00:00 List-Id: In article 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 Read (192.100.81.1) ftp.netcom.com:/pub/hb/hbaker/README for ftp-able papers. WWW archive: ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/hb/hbaker/home.html ************* Note change of address ^^^ ^^^^