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Garbage collector

Posted Jan 29, 2004 15:50 UTC (Thu) by rwmj (subscriber, #5474)
In reply to: Module unloading in a reference counted world by flewellyn
Parent article: Module unloading in a reference counted world

Yes, just what I was going to post :-)

All of these problems that the kernel developers keep reporting were solved back in the 60s and 70s by garbage collectors which are *more efficient* than hand allocation.

Rich.

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