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- From: jonas@beppe.ericsson.se (Jonas Nygren)
- Subject: Re: Garbage Collection for C++
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.134554.9729@ericsson.se>
- Sender: news@ericsson.se
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- Organization: Ericsson Telecom AB
- References: <DAVEG.92Aug20023846@synaptx.synaptics.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 13:45:54 GMT
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- In article 92Aug20023846@synaptx.synaptics.com, daveg@synaptics.com (Dave Gillespie) writes:
- > In article <TMB.92Aug18123919@arolla.idiap.ch> tmb@arolla.idiap.ch (Thomas M. Breuel) writes:
- >
- > > I hope we can agree that GC costs you nothing if it doesn't run
- > > (malloc and free in the presence of GC don't look very different from
- > > the way they do now).
- >
- > Well, as long as you don't introduce tagged pointers, maintain a
- > linked list of all GC pointers, or anything like that. (And I think
- > most of us would agree that you'd want to avoid all those things if
- > you possibly can, and it looks like you can pretty easily.)
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- How do you handle C++ arrays without any extra book-keeping? Can arrays be
- handled by GC without extra book keeping?
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- >
- > -- Dave
- > --
- > Dave Gillespie
- > daveg@synaptics.com, uunet!synaptx!daveg
- > or: daveg@csvax.cs.caltech.edu
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- /jonas
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