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Subject: Re: in defense of GC (was Re: How come Ada isn't more popular?)
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Ray Blaak wrote:
> GC only collects unreachable memory.

The proper definition of (ideal) GC is that it collects
memory for reuse from objects that the program will never
access again. Reachability and such are implementation
details.