Re: Garbage collection

2001-02-11 Thread Jan Dubois
On Sun, 11 Feb 2001 22:30:30 -0500, "Bryan C. Warnock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >crossed to -internals Ok, I removed -language. >Jan Dubois: >> Not necessarily; you would have to implement it that way: When you try to >> open a file and you don't suc

Re: Garbage collection (was Re: JWZ on s/Java/Perl/)

2001-02-12 Thread Jan Dubois
[moved to -internals] On Mon, 12 Feb 2001 01:44:54 -0500, Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Perl needs some level of tracking for objects with finalization attached to >them. Full refcounting isn't required, however. Also, the vast majority of >perl variables have no finalization attach

Re: GC: what is better, reuse or avoid cloning?

2001-02-12 Thread Jan Dubois
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001 15:18:47 -0300, "Branden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Alan Burlison wrote: >> Branden wrote: >> > Any suggestions? >> Yes, but none of them polite. I do think this rudeness is uncalled for. >> You might do well to study the way perl5 handles these issues. > >Perl 5 basically

Re: Trade-offs

2001-02-12 Thread Jan Dubois
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:13:10 +, Simon Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >How much can we do in the compiler, and how much can we do in the >interpreter? If we're having cached bytecode, it makes sense to do >as much optimization as we can in the compiler. If not, we might >as well brute forc

Re: Garbage collection (was Re: JWZ on s/Java/Perl/)

2001-02-12 Thread Jan Dubois
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001 14:50:44 -0300, "Branden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Actually I was thinking something like PMCs ($@%) being copy-GCed and >referred objects (new SomeClass) being refcounted. In this case above, every >operation would use refcount's, since they're storing objects in PMCs. Wha