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From: Hannes Haug <haugha@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
Subject: Re: Garbage Collection in Ada
Date: 1996/10/15
Date: 1996-10-15T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uvvsp7gzgu3.fsf@chaq.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 01bbb910$f1e73f60$829d6482@joy.ericsson.se


bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff) writes:

> is certainly true of off-the-shelf general-purpose allocators, but it's
> easy to write an allocator with predictable timing if the objects are
> all of the same size, and that's exactly what some real-time programs
> do.  And some real-time programs avoid using the heap at all, so of
> course GC is just a waste of implementer's time, for *those* programs.

like the off-the-shelf general-purpose allocators

> I know about Henry Baker's papers on real-time GC, but I remain somewhat
> skeptical.  (I suspect most real-time programmers have never heard of
> real-time GC, and would scoff at it.)

I think the commercial grand circle gc is quite similar to baker's
gc for ada. Paul wilson did some work on real-time gc, too.

 -hannes




  parent reply	other threads:[~1996-10-15  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 126+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-10-13  0:00 Garbage Collection in Ada Jonas Nygren
1996-10-13  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-13  0:00 ` Lars Farm
1996-10-13  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
     [not found]     ` <19961014115513529729@dialup105-2-16.swipnet.se>
1996-10-16  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-16  0:00         ` Lars Farm
1996-10-16  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-16  0:00             ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-17  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-17  0:00                 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-17  0:00               ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-17  0:00                 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-17  0:00                 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-17  0:00             ` Lars Farm
1996-10-23  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-16  0:00         ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-16  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-16  0:00             ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-17  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-17  0:00                 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-17  0:00                   ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-13  0:00   ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-14  0:00   ` John Howard
1996-10-15  0:00     ` Lars Farm
1996-10-15  0:00       ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-15  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-15  0:00         ` Lars Farm
1996-10-15  0:00         ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-17  0:00         ` Thomas Kendelbacher
1996-10-17  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-23  0:00         ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-10-23  0:00           ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-14  0:00   ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-14  0:00     ` Lars Farm
1996-10-15  0:00       ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-16  0:00         ` Lars Farm
1996-10-16  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-17  0:00             ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-19  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-19  0:00                 ` Lars Farm
1996-10-20  0:00                   ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-20  0:00                     ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-20  0:00                       ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-21  0:00                     ` Geert Bosch
1996-10-21  0:00                       ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-21  0:00                     ` Lars Farm
1996-10-21  0:00                       ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-21  0:00                         ` Lars Farm
1996-10-23  0:00                     ` Fergus Henderson
1996-10-24  0:00                     ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-10-20  0:00                 ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-20  0:00                   ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-21  0:00                     ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-21  0:00                       ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-19  0:00               ` Richard Kenner
1996-10-15  0:00     ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-15  0:00   ` Keith Thompson
1996-10-14  0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-15  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-15  0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-10-15  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-16  0:00   ` whiting_ms@corning.com (Matt Whiting)
1996-10-16  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-17  0:00   ` John Howard
1996-10-17  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-18  0:00       ` Lars Farm
1996-10-19  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-20  0:00           ` Lars Farm
1996-10-21  0:00             ` Nicolay Belofastow
1996-10-21  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-21  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-22  0:00               ` Lars Farm
1996-10-20  0:00         ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-20  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-22  0:00         ` Mitch Gart
1996-10-23  0:00           ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-27  0:00             ` Richard Riehle
1996-10-23  0:00           ` Fergus Henderson
1996-10-29  0:00         ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-30  0:00         ` Brian Rogoff
1996-10-30  0:00         ` Jonas Nygren
1996-10-30  0:00         ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-30  0:00         ` James Rogers
1996-10-18  0:00       ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-18  0:00       ` Lars Farm
1996-10-20  0:00         ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-15  0:00 ` Hannes Haug [this message]
1996-10-16  0:00 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen FOU.TD/DELAB
1996-10-16  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-16  0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-16  0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-17  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-16  0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-16  0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-17  0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-10-17  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-17  0:00     ` Richard Kenner
1996-10-17  0:00 ` Rick Hudson
1996-10-17  0:00 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-18  0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-23  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-18  0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-18  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-18  0:00 ` Rick Hudson
1996-10-21  0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-21  0:00 ` Laurent Pautet
1996-10-22  0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-22  0:00 ` Tapani Rundgren
1996-10-23  0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-24  0:00   ` Mitch Gart
1996-10-24  0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-10-24  0:00 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-25  0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-28  0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-10-29  0:00 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
     [not found] <01bbc6a3$4cf03480$829d6482@joy.ericsson.se>
1996-10-31  0:00 ` Mitch Gart
1996-10-31  0:00   ` Jonas Nygren
1996-11-03  0:00   ` Matthew Heaney
1996-11-06  0:00     ` Robert A Duff
1996-11-06  0:00       ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-11-01  0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-11-06  0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1996-11-07  0:00   ` Tucker Taft
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1996-11-02  0:00 Jon S Anthony
1996-10-22  0:00 Brian Rogoff
1996-10-11  0:00 C++ Standardization (was: Once again, Ada absent from DoD SBIR solicitation) Dave Wood
1996-10-17  0:00 ` Garbage Collection in Ada Thomas Kendelbacher
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