[net.lang.ada] Garbage collection

e-smith@utah-cs.UUCP (Eric Smith) (07/17/84)

Who says you can't have your cake and eat it too?

Intel's 432, while it does have other problems, seems to do a d***
good job of heap based allocation *and* PARALLEL garbage collection
using Dijkstra's algorithm (On-the-Fly Garbage Collection: An Exercise
in Cooperation, Communications of the ACM 20: 966-975, November 1978).

There is even some talk of a garbage collection processor... (right now
it's done by the iMAX system process GCOL).

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WOLF@UMASS-CS.CSNET ("Alexander L. Wolf") (03/17/86)

I heard a rumor recently that none of the currently existing, production
quality (now we're *really* cutting the field down) Ada compilers does
garbage collection.

We are developing an Ada program that does a lot of string manipulation and
have found that the program requires a surprisingly large amount of memory
in which to run.  We are using DEC's compiler, which in almost every (other)
respect has proven outstanding.

I'd appreciate any insights...

                                                     Alex.