Re: why malloc/free instead of GC?

Jonas Munsin <[email protected]> Thu, 20 Feb 2003 21:15:31 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.programming.garbage-collection.general
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On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 08:49:45PM +0100, Basile STARYNKEVITCH wrote:
> Actually, I'm surprised that today's major opensource projects (like
> Apache, GNOME, KDE...) don't use GC [with the exception of Emacs,
> which used to explicitly show GC periods to user - this was a wrong
> decision, because it made users complain against GC].

There are a few C opensource projects which use gc, w3m is one that
comes to mind.