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From: tynor@prism.gatech.EDU (Steve Tynor)
Newsgroups: comp.sw.components
Subject: Re: Real-time Garbage Collection
Message-ID: <1929@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 19 Sep 89 16:55:49 GMT
References: <1917@hydra.gatech.EDU> <6506@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Reply-To: tynor@prism.gatech.EDU (Steve Tynor)
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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In article <6506@hubcap.clemson.edu> billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu writes:
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>   expired without even consulting the database.  AWhere objects can have
>   an infinite lifetime, a protocol can be devised whereby the database
>   must be checked at least once per some arbitrary time period by all
>   users, which will permit identification numbers to be recycled after
>   one full time period of nonexistence.  Other protocols might be used

Gee. This sounds an awful lot like garbage collection to me.

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Progress means replacing something wrong with something more subtly wrong.
                     
    Steve Tynor
    Georgia Tech Research Institute
    Artificial Intelligence Branch
    tynor@prism.gatech.edu