Re: Real-time Garbage Collection

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From: Steve Tynor
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1989 16:55

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In article <6506@hubcap.clemson.edu> billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu writes:
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>   expired without even consulting the database.  AWhere objects can have
>   an infinite lifetime, a protocol can be devised whereby the database
>   must be checked at least once per some arbitrary time period by all
>   users, which will permit identification numbers to be recycled after
>   one full time period of nonexistence.  Other protocols might be used

Gee. This sounds an awful lot like garbage collection to me.

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    Steve Tynor
    Georgia Tech Research Institute
    Artificial Intelligence Branch
    tynor@prism.gatech.edu

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From: tynor@prism.gatech.EDU (Steve Tynor)
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Subject: Re: Real-time Garbage Collection
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Date: 19 Sep 89 16:55:49 GMT
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