Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!samsung!crackers!m2c!risky.ecs.umass.edu!dime!dime.cs.umass.edu!moss From: moss@cs.umass.edu (Eliot Moss) Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula3 Subject: Re: garbage collection and fast allocation/deallocation Message-ID: Date: 5 Jun 91 17:02:21 GMT References: <9106051432.AA22607@riposte> Sender: news@dime.cs.umass.edu Reply-To: moss@cs.umass.edu Organization: Dept of Comp and Info Sci, Univ of Mass (Amherst) Lines: 14 In-reply-to: wyant@saber.com's message of 5 Jun 91 14:32:15 GMT Well, we're working on a pretty flexible (and we trust fast) generational collector for our Modula-3 system, and making good progress. Allowing user defined allocators would be complex, and I'm not sure it would be all that much help (with the obvious exception of user written routines for managing the UNTRACED area(s)). We may extend our collector to support finalization, but that would be a ways down the road. Eliot -- J. Eliot B. Moss, Assistant Professor Department of Computer and Information Science Lederle Graduate Research Center University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003 (413) 545-4206, 545-1249 (fax); Moss@cs.umass.edu