[bitc-dev] Pools in lieu of GC

[Eric Rannaud]

On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 05:38:47PM -0500, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> So basically, your concern is that if we insist on GC, we can't deploy on
> iPhone?

(I'm not sure I really understand in what practical situations a GC
would be forced upon the user, so it may not be a real problem in the
following contexts. If avoiding the GC just means not escaping closures,
that's no big deal. The way C++0x handles closures is not pretty, but
works in these contexts.)

What about embedded application on platforms with just a few hundred KB
of RAM (no disk or secondary storage)? What about hard real-time
applications? How do you do GC across many many CPU cores?

As a related question, what's going to be the size of BitC's runtime?
Can we expect a notion similar to freestanding environments as in C?
(similar in its resource requirements)

Thanks.