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Article #130Re: Real-time Garbage Collection
From: ds
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 1989 20:13
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 1989 20:13
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I believe you are both correct. Most created objects can be managed with explicit creation/destruction code, placed in abstract data type specifications or otherwise part of the application, because their lifetimes are naturally connected to the algorithms (or messages) that use them. Sometimes, however, dynamic reclamation (garbage collection) is truly necessary (to avoid unnaturalness or inefficiency). A useful parallel is the need for both stack and heap data storage in general-purpose programming languages. When an application can use explicit creation and destruction for most of its object management, the garbage collection overhead is reduced, and this has all sorts of good consequences. David Spector Prime Computer, Inc. ds@primerd.prime.com (until my layoff, expected soon)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!bloom-beacon!primerd!hollin!ds From: ds@hollin.prime.com Newsgroups: comp.sw.components Subject: Re: Real-time Garbage Collection Message-ID: <194000001@hollin> Date: 23 Sep 89 20:13:00 GMT References: <6488@hubcap.clemson.edu> Lines: 18 Nf-ID: #R:hubcap.clemson.edu:-648800:hollin:194000001:000:798 Nf-From: hollin.prime.com!ds Sep 23 16:13:00 1989