Announcement: micro-libgcj

[Joel Dice]

On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Mike Emmel wrote:

> On 1/6/06, Joel Dice <dicej@mailsnare.net> wrote:
>> On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Martin Egholm Nielsen wrote:
>>
>>> This may be trivial, but if garbage collection is removed, how do one clean
>>> up?
>>
>> One doesn't. :)
>>
>> Many short-lived command-line programs don't need any memory management at
>> all - they complete before the garbage collector needs to collect
>> anything.  For such programs, garbage collection is just bloat.
>>
>> It would be trivial to add a System.free(Object) function, allowing
>> explicit memory management, if it was needed.
>>
>
> What about stack allocation i.e a snew  or System.stackAlloc(Foo.class)
> I'd think that would be useful for these types of platforms.

That certainly would be useful.  I assume it would require modifying the 
compiler, though.  Is that correct?

  - Joel