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Article #93Re: Real-time Garbage Collection
From: William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1989 17:41
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1989 17:41
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From article <1895@hydra.gatech.EDU>, by tynor@prism.gatech.EDU (Steve Tynor):
> Freeing the memory _is_ usually straightforward. Knowing when it's safe to
> do so _isn't_. That's when GC (or reference counting) becomes necessary.
It's safe to do so:
1) When the variable goes out of scope
2) When the programmer specifies that it's to be destroyed sooner.
So assuming that we use abstract data types like good little
programmers, where's the need for reference counting?
Bill Wolfe, wtwolfe@hubcap.clemson.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!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: <6493@hubcap.clemson.edu> Date: 18 Sep 89 17:41:43 GMT References: <1895@hydra.gatech.EDU> Sender: news@hubcap.clemson.edu Reply-To: billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu Lines: 15