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Re: dynamic library cost (was RE: libtool, java woes)
- To: olson at mmsi dot com, tromey at redhat dot com
- Subject: Re: dynamic library cost (was RE: libtool, java woes)
- From: dewar at gnat dot com
- Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 15:03:53 -0400 (EDT)
- Cc: dewar at gnat dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, hans_boehm at hp dot com,java at gcc dot gnu dot org, jsturm at one-point dot com
<<Read the paper "Compiler Support for Garbage Collection in a
Statically Typed Language", by Diwan, Moss, and Hudson. My copy says
"To appear in SIGPLAN '92 PLDI".
>>
Well there is a VERY extensive literature much earlier than this. Remember
that Algol-68 requires fully type accurate garbage collection, and all the
problems were worked out in the early 70's, with a general conclusion that
the costs are not that high (this includes dealing with parallel incremental
garbage collection in a multi-threaded environment, since A68 had full
thread support). Of course there is a followon literature, but this is
hardly a new problem.