On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Raoul Duke <[email protected]> wrote: >> If you allocate *anything* on the heap, you will eventually GC. It >> does not matter if you are allocating closures or something else. > > at least for me, i think there is some amount of terminology confusion > hindering my understanding here. > > * C++ lets me allocate on the heap, but doesn't force me to use GC. (i > am not saying that as if it is either a good or bad thing, btw.) > > * you might be talking about Bit-C in particular, that it enforces > that anything on the heap can only be freed via the GC system?
This is a mailing list about BitC, so yes, I was talking about BitC. _______________________________________________ bitc-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.coyotos.org/mailman/listinfo/bitc-dev
