From: Oyvind Teig (Oyvind.Teig_at_email.domain.hidden)
Date: 2000-09-22 09:41:09
After CPA 2000 I have some questions:
Tom Locke (PhD student au UKC) said something like "if we
remove aliasing, we also remove garbage collection, because
we will not have non-parental objects floating around."
A somewhat weaker predicate might be "if we have aliasing
under control, GC may also be under controll, in a predictive
way." Is this true? Objects would still be taken from the
heap, the heap would still be fragmented and a need to
defragment it would arise? Or could objects be taken from
the stack (possible in RT-Java) in that case?
(The background is that even if occam does not allow any
form of aliasing, a "new" occaom+OO would allow some, like
for containment, doubly linked lists etc.)
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