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Subject: Re: in defense of GC (was Re: How come Ada isn't more popular?)
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Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> writes:
> 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.

Fair enough. In practice, is any other measure besides reachability ever used?

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