Subj : Re: OO compilers and efficiency
To   : comp.programming
From : Chris Dollin
Date : Wed Jul 20 2005 07:20 pm

Jon Harrop wrote:

> Chris Dollin wrote:
>> I believe that if you don't have GC [1], you don't have OO.
> 
> Why do you think this?

Because you have, in general, to worry about when an object 
is no longer referenced - to do work properly relagated to
the implementation/language design.

Didn't Bertrand Meyer articulate this in _Object-Oriented
Software Construction_? I'll try and remember to check my
copy. Without GC, you need a snail trail of some kind through 
your code to handle deallocation.

[Stackable objects aren't the "in general" case.]

-- 
Chris "electric hedgehog" Dollin
It's called *extreme* programming, not *stupid* programming.

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