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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,29850945228df59 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-17 06:00:58 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!colt.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!uninett.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative garbage collector and GNAT Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 13:00:57 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: <1316747.mXveBPtf0Z@linux1.krischik.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1055854857 9514 129.241.83.78 (17 Jun 2003 13:00:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 13:00:57 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:39328 Date: 2003-06-17T13:00:57+00:00 List-Id: Larry Kilgallen wrote: > It would be a way to spend overhead to make up for a lack of cleanup > in the programming. Exactly. So one would need to have GC in all implementations in order to have any real use for it IMHO. As one then can start with more sloppy coding [*]. [*] In the sense that you don't worry abut what happens to your allocations. -- Preben Randhol ---------------- http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ -- "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent", Isaac Asimov