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  Re: the POV-ray SDL--similar to Java and/or Python?  
From: Warp
Date: 14 Sep 2006 14:32:43
Message: <4509a04b@news.povray.org>
Orchid XP v3 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> You mark every object that exists as "garbage". Then you take each 
> global variable, local variable in currently running threads, etc. in 
> turn, and you mark the object that variable points to as "not garbage". 
> And then you find every object it points to and mark all those as "not 
> garbage". And then all the objects that *those* objects point to, and so 
> forth. Follow all the pointers until you stop finding objects that 
> aren't already marked.

  GC was supposed to be faster than a RC method.

-- 
                                                          - Warp


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