[bitc-dev] Pools in lieu of GC

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

Yes. This is the approach that proved too complicated for real programmers.

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Gergely Buday <gbuday at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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