dynamic library cost (was RE: libtool, java woes)

[dewar@gnat.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.