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From: yost@DPW.COM (David A. Yost)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: Stash Collection
Message-ID: <2855@esquire.dpw.com>
Date: 28 Nov 90 04:18:12 GMT
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Reply-To: yost@esquire.UUCP (David A. Yost)
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I've gotten some interesting mail on this topic,
but my point wasn't to get mail but to stimulate
discussion here.

Someone pointed out that purgeable memory blocks
on the Mac are a kind of stash collection.  I'd
like to see a general facility that is capable of
disposing of stashes in LRU order from the pool
of all objects.

Come to think of it, I've advocated a similar
principle for disk file systems and netnews
articles.  Sort of a FIFO trash can: put it in the
trash queue, but it's still available for a while.
I use this method on my email messages and my
office paper trash.  Very nice.

 --dave yost
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