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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: in defense of GC (was Re: How come Ada isn't more popular?)
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2007 20:12:03 -0500
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Ray Blaak <rAYblaaK@STRIPCAPStelus.net> writes:

> GC is one of the modern advances of computing science, period, akin to the use
                   ^^^^^^
> of high level languages vs assembly, lexical scoping vs dynamic scoping,
> strong typing vs no typing, etc.

Modern?  GC is many years old.

> It should be used by default and turned off only in unusual situations.

Agreed that it should be "on" by default.

> Of course, in this group, those circumstances are probably the usual
> case, what with the use of Ada for realtime and embedded programming.
>
> Still, given recent realtime GC algorithms, I would consider the use of GC for
> any system I was responsible for, and would give it up reluctantly, only if
> timing and space constraints were too tight for a given application.

I've read many papers about so-called real-time GC, but I remain
skeptical.

- Bob