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15 Nov 2024 11:14:02 EST (-0500)
  Re: Haskell raving  
From: Orchid XP v7
Date: 2 Nov 2007 14:33:56
Message: <472b7ba4@news.povray.org>
Alain wrote:

> Garbage collection is BAAAAD!!!
> Any implementation that permit you not to use that is GOOD.

Gee, that's not much of a wild generalisation or anything like that...

> I got hit real bad by garbage collection, ONCE! The programm was running 
> realy good, no bug at all, then is just stopped there, nothing at all 
> was hapening, the systemwas totaly unresponsive, uterly frozen, then it 
> resumed after around 15 minutes. It was garbage collecting.

Yeah, old GC algorithms used to do this. Research has been done, 
solutions have been found, etc.


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