[boehms-gc] Performance results

Robert Dewar dewar@adacore.com
Wed Jul 26 19:38:00 GMT 2006


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!





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