[bitc-dev] Pools in lieu of GC

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Raoul Duke <raould at gmail.com> wrote:
>> If you allocate *anything* on the heap, you will eventually GC. It
>> does not matter if you are allocating closures or something else.
>
> at least for me, i think there is some amount of terminology confusion
> hindering my understanding here.
>
> * C++ lets me allocate on the heap, but doesn't force me to use GC. (i
> am not saying that as if it is either a good or bad thing, btw.)
>
> * you might be talking about Bit-C in particular, that it enforces
> that anything on the heap can only be freed via the GC system?

This is a mailing list about BitC, so yes, I was talking about BitC.