Re: Garbage collector - ccl:terminate (memory stuff)
Tim Bradshaw <[email protected]> Mon, 20 May 2024 21:19:53 +0100
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--Apple-Mail-7EB6F8F7-9824-42A9-BA20-16A109848507 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 20 May 2024, at 19:29, Tim McNerney <[email protected]> wrote: >=20 > That the spec says nothing about garbage collection would explain why this= topic has never been on my radar.=20 It would be astonishing if it did, because almost anything it might say woul= d be tantamount to mandating some specific memory-management strategy, and t= hat's not a language standard, it's an implementation standard. (My own implementation works by raising a purchase order for more memory, th= en pausing until it is installed. This is a mostly-viable approach on 64-bi= t systems.) --tim= --Apple-Mail-7EB6F8F7-9824-42A9-BA20-16A109848507 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">On 20 May 2024, at 19:29, Tim McNerney <[email protected]> wrote:</div><div dir="ltr"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">That the spec says <i>nothing</i> about garbage collection would explain why this topic has never been on my radar. </div></blockquote><br><div>It would be astonishing if it did, because almost anything it might say would be tantamount to mandating some specific memory-management strategy, and that's not a language standard, it's an implementation standard.</div><div><br></div><div>(My own implementation works by raising a purchase order for more memory, then pausing until i t is installed. This is a mostly-viable approach on 64-bit systems.)</div><div><br></div><div>--tim</div></body></html> --Apple-Mail-7EB6F8F7-9824-42A9-BA20-16A109848507--