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From: lutz@iks-jena.de (Lutz Donnerhacke)
Subject: Re: Garbage colletion
Date: 1999/11/01
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* Robert Dewar wrote:
>Of course you can also claim the above reasoning is invalid for
>those as well, and indeed your general argument applies to
>absolutely any neat idea that anyone might have under any
>circumstance, but we need a better discriminator for priorities
>than this :-)

No. It is only valid for problems which arise often enough to newusers.
Those problems are common enough to be included in a FAQ.

But the main argument against GC is, that real world problems would require
to cancel GC ;-)