[bitc-dev] Pools in lieu of GC

[Gergely Buday]

Rick Richardson wrote:

> There are situations where a garbage collector is not desirable, but I would
> prefer to avoid the errors of explicit memory management.
> With this in mind, would it be possible to have a compromise between  full
> GC and no memory management (at all?) by using a pool allocator which is
> scoped to a particular frame.

Region-based memory management is a step in that direction:

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.23.5498

- Gergely