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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID
	autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 103376,3ccb707f4c91a5f2
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
From: Hannes Haug <haugha@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
Subject: Re: Java vs Ada 95 (Was Re: Once again,
 Ada absent from DoD SBIR solicitation)
Date: 1996/10/13
Message-ID: <uvvenj3givq.fsf@chaq.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>#1/1
X-Deja-AN: 189137014
sender: haugha@chaq.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de
references: <325BC3B3.41C6@hso.link.com>
organization: Uni Tuebingen
newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Date: 1996-10-13T00:00:00+00:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>


davedave@io.com writes:

> BTW:  I have heard that, for C++, someone has written a garbage 
> collector which can be added to almost any C++ program.  Would it be any 
> more difficult to do the same thing for Ada95?  I would certainly look 
> forward to such a product.  IMHO, memory management is something that a 
> machine should do (whenever possible) -- freeing up humans to do things 
> which require more skill and creativity.

There are the free Boehm-Weiser Conservative Collector
        http://reality.sgi.com/employees/boehm_mti/gc.html
and the commercial Great Circle collector
        http://www.geodesic.com.

Some other pointers:
        http://www.centerline.com/people/chase/GC/GC-faq.html
        http://stork.ukc.ac.uk/computer_science/Html/Jones/gc.html
        http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/oops/papers.html
        ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/hb/hbaker/home.html

 -hannes