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From: tynor@prism.gatech.EDU (Steve Tynor)
Newsgroups: comp.sw.components
Subject: Re:  Re: Real-time Garbage Collection
Message-ID: <1983@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 22 Sep 89 12:25:18 GMT
References: <8222@goofy.megatest.UUCP>
Reply-To: tynor@prism.gatech.EDU (Steve Tynor)
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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In article <8222@goofy.megatest.UUCP> djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones) writes:
...
>If he had lived, today he might say, "Garbage collection is a mistake.
>If you don't know enough about the problem to free the unreferenced
>memory, you don't know enough about the problem."
>
>If I had lived, I probably would agree with him.
...
>all the records in a Heap, just destroy the entire Heap. Both of these,
>like all my librar.. er ADT's, grow in size indefinitely, as required.
                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I assume this was intended to be followed by a ":-)". 

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    Steve Tynor
    Georgia Tech Research Institute
    Artificial Intelligence Branch
    tynor@prism.gatech.edu