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Re: [boehms-gc] Performance results

From: Robert Dewar <dewar at adacore dot com>
To: Laurynas Biveinis <laurynas dot biveinis at gmail dot com>
Cc: David Nicol <davidnicol at gmail dot com>, GCC Mailing List <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 14:38:33 -0400
Subject: Re: [boehms-gc] Performance results
References: <d1e3ff2b0607240145h1558bc59h61a6250150b14fd7@mail.gmail.com> <934f64a20607251030w2cb1ef46xddca7daf46cc905d@mail.gmail.com> <d1e3ff2b0607261032l67c953cam5aa38b09e8b7361d@mail.gmail.com>

Laurynas Biveinis wrote:

That's certainly possible, maybe even interesting, but I'm not going
to try this :) Circular references could be handled by fallbacking to
mark-and-sweep time from time.

Or by just being careful. Even type correct full garbage collection does not guarantee freedom from memory leaks, as Java and Algol-68 programmers know well. You still have to be careful not to accidentally hold onto garbage!

References:
- [boehms-gc] Performance results
  - From: Laurynas Biveinis
- Re: [boehms-gc] Performance results
  - From: David Nicol
- Re: [boehms-gc] Performance results
  - From: Laurynas Biveinis

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