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The true meaning of GC

Posted Jan 7, 2007 1:45 UTC (Sun) by Max.Hyre (subscriber, #1054)
In reply to: Device resource management by nix
Parent article: Device resource management

It's only garbage collection if you consider `chuck it all away' to be GC.

Isn't that what GC is all about? This one just doesn't have to be so picky about what it chucks. :-)

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Posted Jan 9, 2007 16:50 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Well, yeah, but it's at best very *simple-minded* GC. :)