Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 09:32:12 -0800 From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: mmcg@heraclitus.cs.monash.edu.au Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Garbage collection package? Message-ID: <199611141732.JAA08872@austin.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <199611141034.VAA23137@heraclitus.cs.monash.edu.au> References: <199611141034.VAA23137@heraclitus.cs.monash.edu.au>
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> Is there any interest in adding the Boehm/Weisner conservative > garbage collection package as a standard package? Yes, I'd love to have it in our ports collection. I played around with it a year or two ago. It's really slick. If you'd like to put together a port, I'd be happy to review it and commit it for you. Just think, you'll be famous and immortal! Your e-mail address will be buried somewhere in the bowels of a FreeBSD CD. :-) > ps: Once you've tried it, GC is highly addictive :) Yes indeed! It took me a long time to get over my anal worries about what must really be going on deep within the GC, and how inefficient it must surely be (wrong). But it was worth the effort. Having GC frees you up to think at a higher level. It also eliminates delete/free related interdependencies among pieces of code that conceptually ought to be independent of one another. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth
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