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- From: daniel.edelson@goudurix.inria.fr (Daniel Edelson)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Garbage Collection for C++
- Message-ID: <4116@seti.UUCP>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 08:19:14 GMT
- References: <DAVEG.92Aug17224359@synaptx.synaptics.com> <boehm.714158406@siria> <DAVEG.92Aug27002517@synaptx.synaptics.com>
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- Reply-To: Daniel R. Edelson <edelson@sor.inria.fr>
- Organization: INRIA -- Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique -- Rocquencourt, France
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- In article <DAVEG.92Aug27002517@synaptx.synaptics.com>, daveg@synaptics.com (Dave Gillespie) writes:
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- |> Simple, conservative non-moving GC can be added with
- |> minimal effect to the rest of the language, and minimal danger of
- |> toppling it.
- |>
- |> Dave Gillespie
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- While it is an excellent technique, its worst case behavior is
- unacceptable, e.g., one false pointer into a very large strongly
- connected data structure.... It's valuable and worth using, and
- significantly better than anything else that's currently available,
- but does not appear to be a panacea. Its presence does not mean
- that we should stop looking for other solutions.
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- Daniel.Edelson@inria.fr
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