Daniel Rall wrote: > Also, would you point me to a > reference on how memory management is handled?
It uses the Boehm collector. For full details see here: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/ It is a conservative collector that can also implement garbage collection for C and C++, though gcc doesn't yet take advantage of this. It's a fairly decent collector, I think, that implements most of the obvious optimisations such as generations, exploitation of the MMU, etc. Its conservative nature is both an upside and a downside. On the downside, a small amount of storage may not get reclaimed -- though unlike leaky C programs, this amount tends not to increase with time. On the upside, there is less overhead because the collector doesn't have to distinguish between pointers and other types. -- Pete -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
