Re: Garbage Collection in C

SM Ryan <wyrmwif@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

"Paul Connolly" <pgconnolly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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# "SM Ryan" <wyrmwif@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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# > Garbage collection + finalisation allows you everything destructors
# > do with fewer restrictions in the language and less work by
# > programmers.
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# everything? so this garbage collection doesn't use any more memory than hand

Then don't use it.

This involves a technical point of language design. Destructors
were added to C++ because it had no garbage collection. The
result is far more complicated language implementation which
can still has implicit storage management activated.

Destructors do more than releasing memory. And finalisation is not a
good substitute for these tasks as finalisation is not synchronous.

Yours,

--
Jean-Marc
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