Re: [fpc-pascal] Boehm GC

2009-03-19 Thread Adrian Veith
Hi bd, than I guess, this is why you look at the boehm gc (that's why I was looking at it). I have put some haxe/neko pascal related code at http://code.google.com/p/pascal4neko/ The code is only tested with delphi, but should work with fpc as well. There is no memory manager for boehm, but some c

Re: [fpc-pascal] Boehm GC

2009-03-18 Thread Krishna
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:50 PM, Krishna wrote: > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 9:04 PM, Marco van de Voort wrote: >> In our previous episode, Krishna said: >>> > >>> > I'm new to fpc and pascal, i.e. I've never done a project in it, but >>> > i've been following the lists for a while and dabbling. >>

Re: [fpc-pascal] Boehm GC

2009-03-18 Thread Krishna
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 9:04 PM, Marco van de Voort wrote: > In our previous episode, Krishna said: >> > >> > I'm new to fpc and pascal, i.e. I've never done a project in it, but >> > i've been following the lists for a while and dabbling. >> > >> > I like using a garbage collector and I know you

Re: [fpc-pascal] Boehm GC

2009-03-18 Thread ritchie turner
Hi Adrian, Guilty! bd. On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 17:03 +0100, Adrian Veith wrote: > ritchie turner schrieb: > > Thanks all, I've got something to go on now. > > > > bd. > > > bye the way - are you black dog from the haxe list ? > > Cheers, > > Adrian. > ___

Re: [fpc-pascal] Boehm GC

2009-03-18 Thread Adrian Veith
ritchie turner schrieb: > Thanks all, I've got something to go on now. > > bd. > bye the way - are you black dog from the haxe list ? Cheers, Adrian. ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/lis

Re: [fpc-pascal] Boehm GC

2009-03-18 Thread Adrian Veith
ritchie turner schrieb: > I'm new to fpc and pascal, i.e. I've never done a project in it, but > i've been following the lists for a while and dabbling. > > I like using a garbage collector and I know you can replace the memory > manager in fpc so i guess it's probably trivial to replace the stand

Re: [fpc-pascal] Boehm GC

2009-03-18 Thread ritchie turner
Thanks all, I've got something to go on now. bd. On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 16:34 +0100, Marco van de Voort wrote: > In our previous episode, Krishna said: > > > > > > I'm new to fpc and pascal, i.e. I've never done a project in it, but > > > i've been following the lists for a while and dabbling. >

Re: [fpc-pascal] Boehm GC

2009-03-18 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Krishna said: > > > > I'm new to fpc and pascal, i.e. I've never done a project in it, but > > i've been following the lists for a while and dabbling. > > > > I like using a garbage collector and I know you can replace the memory > > manager in fpc so i guess it's probably

Re: [fpc-pascal] Boehm GC

2009-03-18 Thread Krishna
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 7:07 PM, ritchie turner wrote: > > I'm new to fpc and pascal, i.e. I've never done a project in it, but > i've been following the lists for a while and dabbling. > > I like using a garbage collector and I know you can replace the memory > manager in fpc so i guess it's prob

Re: [fpc-pascal] Boehm GC

2009-03-18 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, ritchie turner said: > > I'm new to fpc and pascal, i.e. I've never done a project in it, but > i've been following the lists for a while and dabbling. > > I like using a garbage collector and I know you can replace the memory > manager in fpc so i guess it's probably tri

Re: [fpc-pascal] Boehm GC

2009-03-18 Thread ritchie turner
I know it has limitations and downsides but I have to respectfully disagree it's the worst programming idea ever. For the stuff I do which is high level applications I don't believe it's going to affect me badly; If i were writing codecs or an operating system then i would find it hard to justify

Re: [fpc-pascal] Boehm GC

2009-03-18 Thread Jonas Maebe
Adriaan van Os wrote on wo, 18 mrt 2009: The main issue is that garbage collection is the worst programming idea ever. It lets you get away with bad program design at the cost of slow execution. Please post remarks like that to the fpc-other list instead. This list is not about advocacy, but

Re: [fpc-pascal] Boehm GC

2009-03-18 Thread Adriaan van Os
ritchie turner wrote: I'm new to fpc and pascal, i.e. I've never done a project in it, but i've been following the lists for a while and dabbling. I like using a garbage collector and I know you can replace the memory manager in fpc so i guess it's probably trivial to replace the standard with b