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- From: smith@ctron.com (Larry Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.object
- Subject: Re: Is GC needed?
- Message-ID: <4567@balrog.ctron.com>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 19:06:28 GMT
- References: <DJOHNSON.92Jul6152406@mycroft.ti.com> <1992Jul8.012152.28375@clam.ssw.de> <1992Jul10.165626.7864@visix.com>
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- Organization: Cabletron Systems, Inc.
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- In article <1992Jul10.165626.7864@visix.com>, adam@visix.com writes:
-
- >Have a little imagination, leave room for other paradigms. I am less
- >fortunate than most people in that I don't know the perfect solution,
- >but I do think about it and if I come up with anything y'all'll be
- >the first to know :-).
-
- Okay, I'll bite. What *is* one alternative to GC besides malloc/free???
-
- Larry Smith (smith@ctron.com) No, I don't speak for Cabletron.
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- Daily I'd go over to Congress - that grand old benevolent national asylum - and
- report on the inmates there. Never seen a body of men with tongues more handy,
- or information more uncertain. If one of those men had been present when the
- Deity was on the point of saying "Let there be light" we never would've had it.
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