[bitc-dev] Pools in lieu of GC

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Sandro Magi <smagi at higherlogics.com> wrote:
> Aside from type-safe memory systems [1], Erlang is a good example of
> explicit deallocation despite GC and memory safety. Creating and quickly
> destroying a separate process is a widely used pattern for prompt
> reclamation. If there's interest, I can dig up the reference to the
> Erlang memory management paper where they encouraged this pattern and
> designed memory management around it.

I agree that this is an interesting idea. It can be viewed as a
variant on the explicit named heaps idea.

Yes. I would appreciate a reference.


shap