Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 21:54:01 11/27/01
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On November 27, 2001 at 17:38:58, Dann Corbit wrote: >On November 27, 2001 at 17:34:25, Eugene Nalimov wrote: > >>Actually, you don't need GC for the Basic. Reference counting is sufficient >>there. And it definitely can be used in the real time code. > >That's very interesting. I've never heard that before. It seems to me that >with functions like mid$(), etc. which allocate hunks of stuff on the fly, you >would need some way to do GC. But obviously, there is something I have not >thought of. > >At any rate, if it can be used for BASIC, I suspect it might also be possible in >Java. Wrong. In Java you need full GC. Of course you can use Smalltalk's approach -- reference counters for the non-curcular structures, with GC calls sometimes to free dead curcular structures, but that still means nondeterministic behavior. Eugene > >BTW, Microsoft's C# should really be D#, because it looks a *lot* more like >Delphi than C or C++.
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