On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:22:41 +0800 Chiheng Xu <chiheng...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Basile, I completely agree with you. > > I recommend people interested in automatic dynamic memory management > to read this book: > Garbage Collection: Algorithms For Automatic Dynamic Memory > Management(Richard Jones,1996) > > The importance of garbage collection in large software project and why > reference counting based solution is inefficient and can't be good > general "garbage collection" mechanism is clearly explained. > > > As a non-compiler developer, I want to share my experience in studying > GCC's source code.
If you want to extend, alter or improve GCC source code in a garbage collected language, please consider trying MELT (see http://gcc-melt.org/ for more). MELT is a domain specific language (garbage collected, lispy syntax, with high order functions & objects & pattern matching) designed for GCC extensions. [sorry for the shameless plug, I am the main author of MELT] And MELT garbage collector fits very well in Gcc, it is a copying GC built above Ggc. Cheers. -- Basile STARYNKEVITCH http://starynkevitch.net/Basile/ email: basile<at>starynkevitch<dot>net mobile: +33 6 8501 2359 8, rue de la Faiencerie, 92340 Bourg La Reine, France *** opinions {are only mine, sont seulement les miennes} ***
