Re: Ada GC (was about Java VM)

jsa@organon.com (Jon S Anthony)
31 Jan 1996 23:32:36 -0500

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From: jsa@organon.com (Jon S Anthony)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers,comp.lang.ada
Date: 31 Jan 1996 23:32:36 -0500
Organization: Organon Motives, Inc.
References: 96-01-037 96-01-118 96-01-125
Keywords: Ada, storage, GC

boehm@parc.xerox.com (Hans Boehm) writes:
> My impression was that in reality such programs tend to not really use
> a general purpose allocator, in which case the whole issue is moot.


In general I think this is correct (at least from my exposure to such
programs). In fact, you can get away with _no_ allocator (no "heap"
memory) or sometimes no _reclamation_. And yes, you can "get away"
with these two things just fine in many "standard" programming tasks
as well.


/Jon
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