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From: gateley@m2.csc.ti.com (John Gateley)
Newsgroups: comp.sw.components
Subject: Re: Garbage Collection
Message-ID: <91482@ti-csl.csc.ti.com>
Date: 18 Sep 89 02:03:26 GMT
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In article <6478@hubcap.clemson.edu> billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu writes:
<From article <175@ntmtv.UUCP>, by hopper@ntmtv.UUCP (Ian Hopper):
<> I have always felt that some form of Garbage Collection is
<> needed in order to do a decent job on reusable "Collection"
<> modules.  
<
<    Actually, garbage collection is unacceptable to certain
<    users, real-time users in particular.

This is not true: there exists at least one real-time garbage collection
algorithm (don't have the reference right now, email if you want it).

John
gateley@m2.csc.ti.com