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- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Path: sparky!uunet!secapl!Cookie!frank
- From: frank@Cookie.secapl.com (Frank Adams)
- Subject: Re: Garbage Collection for C++
- Message-ID: <1992Aug25.191044.116291@Cookie.secapl.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 19:10:44 GMT
- References: <TMB.92Aug18123919@arolla.idiap.ch> <9223122.20958@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> <TMB.92Aug18165833@arolla.idiap.ch>
- Organization: Security APL, Inc.
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- In article <TMB.92Aug18165833@arolla.idiap.ch> tmb@idiap.ch writes:
- >(*) What this means is implementation dependent. On virtual memory
- >machines, a sensible default notion of "no more memory" would be "no
- >more real memory", since for most programs, performace becomes
- >extremely once you start paging anyway. Under DOS, I think it's pretty
- >clear what "no more memory" means.
-
- This is an aside, but it really isn't clear. Many DOS C compilers these
- days support access to expanded and extended memory, not to mention various
- DOS extenders and swapping or virtual memory schemes. Probably most
- existing large DOS applications would have to turn/leave GC off.
-