Subject: Re: Lisp is not an interpreted language
From: rpw3@rigden.engr.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
Date: 1996/11/22
Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.ai.genetic,comp.ai.neural-nets,comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.c++,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.lang.asm.x86,comp.unix.programmer,comp.ai.philosophy
Message-ID: <573gfr$8n5@tokyo.engr.sgi.com>

Paul Schlyter <pausch@electra.saaf.se> wrote:
+---------------
| Garbage collection is definitely more than a runtime library -- it
| requires language support as well.  Consider implementing garbage
| collection in a language like C -- it would be next to impossible...
+---------------

Gee, then I guess I better stop linking the Boehm/Demers "Conservative
Garbage Collector for C and C++" with my C programs, hadn't I? I had
*thought* it was just a runtime library, but I guess I just didn't realize
it was "impossible".  ;-}  ;-}


-Rob

References:
    http://reality.sgi.com/employees/boehm_mti/gc.html
    ftp://parcftp.xerox.com/pub/gc/gc.html

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