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Article #164Re: Real-time Garbage Collection
From: William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1989 00:12
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1989 00:12
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From johnson@p.cs.uiuc.edu:
> In fact, I don't believe that managed and unmanaged storage paradigm
> should coexist in one program. You should either use components that
> use automatic garbage collection or components that do not. While it
> is possible to link C code to Lisp or Smalltalk, it is always tricky
> and error prone.
Since Ada components can coexist with no difficulty, this is
not a true statement in general.
> Automatic garbage collection prevents storage crises. The system I
> use generate an exception if it runs out of memory in spite of a
> garbage collection, but I wouldn't dream of trying to handle that
> automatically.
Those who write embedded systems would tend to disagree.
> [The cost is only 5%]
At what cost in terms of extra space requirements?
> [Real-time GC is coming, Real Soon Now]
When it gets there, let me know.
Bill Wolfe, wtwolfe@hubcap.clemson.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!cica!gatech!hubcap!billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu From: billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu (William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 ) Newsgroups: comp.sw.components Subject: Re: Real-time Garbage Collection Message-ID: <6599@hubcap.clemson.edu> Date: 27 Sep 89 00:12:27 GMT References: <130200013@p.cs.uiuc.edu> Reply-To: billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu Lines: 27