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On 01/01/2013 10:54 AM, Robert A Duff wrote:
> Charles Hixson<charleshixsn@earthlink.net>  writes:
>
>> ...I really preferred a language with a garbage collector,
>
> I have used the Boehm garbage collector successfully with Ada.
>
> You could also consider use-defined storage pools.
> I don't know enough detail of what you're doing to know
> if they would help.
>
> - Bob
I don't think storage pools would help, though I admit I don't 
understand them.  And at my level of skill at Ada, attempting to install 
a non-standard component (i.e. the garbage collector) is inviting disaster.

Actually, for the current project the need for garbage collection is 
minimal...but I often do things where garbage collection really 
simplifies memory management.  Even on this one I'm going to need to 
figure out how to recycle memory with Ada.Collections.Vectors attached, 
as different cells will connect to differing numbers of other cells. 
The documentation is a bit unclear as to exactly what various routines 
in the Ada.Collections.Vectors do to memory that has been allocated. 
(By a a bit unclear I mean they give you the name, and expect you to 
know how it handles memory...either that, or it isn't specified by the 
standard.  I haven't dug into the AARM...the first couple of pages of it 
were too intimidating to go any further.  I should try again on a copy 
without the changes.)