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From: bartlett@decwrl.dec.com (Joel Bartlett)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re:    C++ garbage collection
Message-ID: <1991Apr30.231018.18723@pa.dec.com>
Date: 30 Apr 91 23:10:18 GMT
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We've been using a generational, compacting garbage collector with C++
for about 18 months.  The people who have been writing CAD tools using
it claim that they would not have been able to write them without it.

The collector is available for anonymous ftp from 'gatekeeper.dec.com'
[16.1.0.2]. The are in '/pub/DEC/CCgc' and include:

         26nov90.tar.Z           initial release.  This includes support for
                                 Digital VAX and DECstation systems running
                                 ULTRIX.
         README                  copyright notice and overview

jfb