Re: Ada GC (was about Java VM)

kelvin@cs.iastate.edu (Kelvin Nilsen)
31 Jan 1996 23:26:43 -0500

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From: kelvin@cs.iastate.edu (Kelvin Nilsen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java,comp.compilers,comp.lang.ada
Date: 31 Jan 1996 23:26:43 -0500
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
References: 96-01-037 96-01-100 96-01-118
Keywords: translator, C++, Ada

dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
>Garbage collection is a technique for automatic storage management
>that is pretty much language independent. It is a good idea for some
>environments, and not for others. In particular, embedded applications
>and hard real-time applications prefer to stay away from garbage
>collection.


For your information, we are working on Java virtual machine support
that will provide garbage collection for hard-real-time embedded
applications. See the web site mentioned in my signature for more
details.


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