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- From: tim@franck (Tim Hollebeek)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Why garbage collection?
- Followup-To: comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.c++
- Date: 26 Jan 1996 18:39:43 GMT
- Organization: Princeton University
- Message-ID: <4eb75f$l2t@cnn.Princeton.EDU>
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- Cyber Surfer (cyber_surfer@wildcard.demon.co.uk) wrote:
-
- : It was published in 1976, so its one of a number of books from
- : around that time which I love. Sadly, many of the techniques in this
- : particular book seem to have been forgotten. Is anyone still using
- : coral rings, multilists and inverted multilists? Have these data
- : structures become "obselete", like reference counting, cylinder-surface
- : indexing, etc?
-
- Reference counting is obsolete? I better go rush over and tell that
- to all the C++ programmers who use it extensively because they don't
- have GC in the language :-) Heck, Byte even published an article on
- how to write a refcounting pointer class in the last few months. Not
- that Byte is exactly at the Leading Edge of programming, but it does
- show that plenty of Real World programmers still do things that way.
-
- Whether they _should_ is another story :-)
-
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