Re: Better support for garbage collection

[Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>]

"Nick Roberts" <nickroberts@adaos.worldonline.co.uk> writes:

> <snip good stuff>
> 
> The question that remains, to my mind, of what action for me to take next
> reduces to three basic possibilities: (a) make the amendments suggested
> herein, and send the proposal to the ARG (which e-mail address would be
> best?); (b) continue discussing the proposal in this newsgroup (or
> elsewhere?), and submit it later, after perhaps much refinement; (c) forget
> it.

I suggest you actually implement it, and implement an example
application that benefits from garbage collection. 

Implementing the GC bodies will catch other mistakes like missing
function parameters.

Implementing an example application will help the rest of us
understand why we should support (or oppose :) this. In particular, it
should show why that application can't use what is already provided by
storage pools.

Then we can discuss it, and _then_ we can submit it to the ARG.

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-- Stephe