[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [PATCH] Small improvement at genlist and maphand

[Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Raimar Falke wrote:
> 
> Yes. The solution is garbage collection. There are some for C++ but I
> have never seen or used one. Java made it clear how easy for the
> programmer this can be.

Yes. Unfortunately it introduces new problems. Most GC's are dumb so
you must set all pointers that point to a piece of mem to NULL so the
GC can see that the memory isn't used anymore. GC's are also often slow
when doing the garbage collecting step. I should know about that as a
former LISP programmer :-)
Sure its easy to use. But it isn't perfect.

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa