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- From: pardo@cs.washington.edu (David Keppel)
- Subject: Re: Adding garbage collection to C++
- Reply-To: pardo@cs.washington.edu (David Keppel)
- Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 22:04:59 GMT
- Approved: compilers@iecc.cambridge.ma.us
- Message-ID: <92-08-083@comp.compilers>
- References: <92-08-044@comp.compilers> <92-08-076@comp.compilers>
- Keywords: C++, GC, parallel
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- bill@amber.ssd.csd.harris.com (Bill Leonard) writes:
- >[Garbage collection across multiple processes is hard ...]
-
- But not impossible:
-
- AUTHOR = "John Hughes",
- TITLE = "A Distributed Garbage Collection Algorithm",
- BOOKTITLE = "Functional Programming Languages and Computer
- Architecture",
- YEAR = 1985, PAGES = {256--272}
-
- %T STRUCTURING DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS AS FRAGMENTED OBJECTS
- %A Mesaac Makpangou
- %A Yvon Gourhant
- %A Jean-Pierre Le Narzul
- %A Marc Shapiro
- %R Rapport de Recherche INRIA 1404
- %D February 1991
- %X nelly@sor.inria.fr, anonymous FTP nuri.inria.fr [128.93.1.26]
-
- %T Robust, Distributed References and Accylic Garbage Colelction
- %A Marc Shapiro
- %A Peter Dickman
- %A David Plainfosse
- %J Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing
- %C Vancouver, Canada
- %D August 1992
- %X marc.shapiro@inria.fr
-
- %A Barbara Liskov
- %A Rivka Ladin
- %T Higly-Available Distributed Services and Fault-Tolerant Distributed
- Garbage Collection
- %J Proceedings of the 5th Symposium on the Principles of Distributed
- Computing
- %P 29-39
- %D August 1986
- %C Vancouver, Canada
- %X rivka@crl.dec.com
-
- >[Thus I advocate GC can be turned on or off.]
-
- To my mind, being able to turn it on or off is a good idea, even when
- decide that distributed gc is possible. You do need to have a tight
- definition on the language & system behavior when it is turned off.
-
- ;-D on ( This idea is GARBAGE ... collection ) Pardo
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