Darren New nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2007/11/02 20:04:
> Alain wrote:
>> Garbage collection is BAAAAD!!!
>> Any implementation that permit you not to use that is GOOD.
> 
> Uh, not sure why you'd say this. You're looking at one implementation of 
> one garbage collector, and deducing from this that the entire concept is 
> bad? You *are* aware there are such things as real-time garbage 
> collectors, for example?
> 
> I can't imagine a GC that takes 15 minutes on anything that isn't paging 
> like mad. In which case the problems isn't the GC, but the paging, in 
> which case you should say "paging is baaaaad!"  :-)
> 
> I mean, really, how can you imagine any decent GC would take more than 
> (say) three times the length of time it takes to read all physical memory?
> 
OK, it was a LONG time ago!
There was no paging, there could'nt be any paging, there was no HD to receive 
anything. ALL of the data was in RAM. It was before HD where common on PC's.

-- 
Alain
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You know you've been raytracing too long when you know how to render a truly 
photorealistic compact disc, and you're not going to tell anyone
(least of all a POV user  ;)  ).
     -- Alex McLeod a.k.a. Giant Robot Messiah

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