From: Hannes Haug <Hannes.Haug@Student.Uni-Tuebingen.de>
Subject: Re: Q: memory management
Date: 1996/06/21
Date: 1996-06-21T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uvv91dh5ubk.fsf@chaq.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9606192037.AA13484@most
>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Dewar <dewar@cs.nyu.edu> writes:
Robert> Hannes said "I have several 100000 memory regions of
Robert> different, not at compile time known quite small sizes."
Robert> I cannot conceive of any legitimate need in an Ada program
Robert> for allocating several hundred thousand small areas of raw
Robert> memory. Possibly one could imagine a C program doing this,
Robert> but not an Ada program.
Imagine bignum arithmetic with garbage collection. If I'd have just
some bignums there would be too many garbage collections.
- hannes
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Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-06-19 0:00 Q: memory management W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1996-06-20 0:00 ` Hannes Haug
1996-06-20 0:00 ` Hannes Haug
1996-06-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-21 0:00 ` Hannes Haug [this message]
1996-06-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-25 0:00 ` Hannes Haug
[not found] <JSA.96Jun26142033@organon.com>
1996-06-27 0:00 ` Q: Memory management Hannes Haug
1996-06-27 0:00 ` Hannes Haug
1996-06-27 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
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1996-06-24 0:00 W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1996-06-25 0:00 ` Hannes Haug
1996-06-25 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-06-25 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
[not found] ` <Dtzv4J.9FL@thomsoft.com>
1996-07-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-25 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-06-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-27 0:00 ` Hannes Haug
1996-06-15 0:00 Q: memory management Hannes Haug
1996-06-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-15 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-06-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-18 0:00 ` Kent Mitchell
1996-06-16 0:00 ` Hannes Haug
1996-06-17 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-06-17 0:00 ` Hannes Haug
1996-06-18 0:00 ` Hannes Haug
1996-06-18 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-06-19 0:00 ` Hannes Haug
1996-06-18 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
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