From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] limbo's GC
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 10:21:46 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <eb9db09640b6f7ce7f5c96fcee674627@terzarima.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200403021008.i22A8eJv072216@adat.davidashen.net>
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yes.
>>that I can rely on instant deallocation of resources if the data structures
>>behind resources are acyclic?
yes. actually, that's one slight difference with Java (as i knew it, anyhow).
a Java implementation might deallocate acyclic things immediately
but the language doesn't guarantee it. Limbo does.
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From: David Tolpin <dvd@davidashen.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] limbo's GC
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 14:08:40 +0400 (AMT)
Message-ID: <200403021008.i22A8eJv072216@adat.davidashen.net>
I have read the article and I am convinced. It is an algorithm different from
that I had in mind, but is efficient enough to support general-purpose garbage
collection.
I have been misled by limbo's papers and manual.
Can I rephrase it as that I can use arbitrary data structures exactly as I would
with lisp or ML or any other language with automatic memory management. And
that I can rely on instant deallocation of resources if the data structures
behind resources are acyclic?
David
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