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- From: kelvin@kickapoo.catd.iastate.edu (Kelvin Nilsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.object,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java
- Subject: Re: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, and the Wicked ...
- Date: 28 Mar 96 18:50:46 GMT
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- Francesco Fantauzzi <mapgfgf@brunel.ac.uk> writes:
-
- >A language offering automatic garbage collection disqualifies itself for
- >at least two streams of applications:
-
- >1) those requiring a garbage collection, but one different from the one
- >"built" into the language
-
- >2) those requiring that you DON'T do any automatic garbage collection.
-
- >I belive that, for instance, real-time applications fit the second
- >stream.
-
- >A language that is proposed as "general purpose" shouldn't offer
- >"compulsory" garbage collection (g.c.). A general purpose language should
- >give you a chance to implement the g.c. you like the most. Between the
- >languages you have mentioned in your article, I know througly just C++.
- >Up to what I know, C++ allows you to implement your favorite g.c. through
- >(say) overloading, inheritance, and the preprocessor.
-
- You should be aware that numerous real-time garbage collection techniques
- are avavailable. And work is under way to implement real-time java. See
- the web page referenced from my signature.
-
- >>Memory Leaks 1 3 1 1
- >^----------------- C++ has got exception handling. It seems to me a good
- >way to handle memory leaks.
-
- or to introduce them ...
-
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