Re: data allocation in interpreters

weltraum@astrocat.de writes:
> What are common techniques for data allocation (strings, high-level
> data structures) in interpreters? I could think about:
>
> - malloc / free with trying to free unused data as soon as possible.
> - same as above with some custom implementation of malloc / free (which
> one?)
> - full blown grabage collector.
> - somthing hybrid (how?)
>
> What do you think, how is it implemented in the famous interpreters?


Depends on the programming language.


If you consider an interpreter for C, you'll probably won't have a
garbage collecetor included, since the purpose of C is to compute
addresses and use malloc/free (or is it? cf BoehmGC).


But in most other programming languages, there's a garbage collector.


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