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

[Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@xxxxxxxx>]

Modern GC (incremental, with several generations) can be pretty fast
(such as the one in ocaml), and they can be pretty smart (ie collect
everything automatically) when the language was designed with automatic
memory management in mind.

Alan Schmitt

* Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa (vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> 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.
> 
> ---
> Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa
> 
> 
> 


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