Re: Adding garbage collection to C++

pardo@cs.washington.edu (David Keppel)
Sat, 15 Aug 1992 22:04:59 GMT

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From: pardo@cs.washington.edu (David Keppel)
Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 22:04:59 GMT
References: 92-08-044 92-08-076
Keywords: C++, GC, parallel

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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