Subj : Re: OO compilers and efficiency
To   : comp.programming
From : Jon Harrop
Date : Sun Jul 24 2005 09:01 pm

Rob Thorpe wrote:
> program exits.  If you can't gaurantee this won't crash the machine,
> then another strategy is use GC but set it to kick in at ~20MB, so for
> many uses of the program it never happens.

Benchmarks of GC'd languages often do this. Look for Gc.* calls in OCaml
programs on the shootout, for example.

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Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy
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