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Re: Garbage collection with -finalize?
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Helge Hess |
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Re: Garbage collection with -finalize? |
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Fri, 2 Dec 2005 13:23:55 +0100 |
On 2. Dez 2005, at 09:57 Uhr, Markus Hitter wrote:
- Will GNUstep's GC be at least somewhat compatible with this?
The approach is completely different. Apple builds the GC support
into compiler while GNUstep(/libFoundation) currently uses Boehm-GC,
a conservative GC.
Hopefully the gcc-based implementation one day will also work with
GNUstep (but then we also do not have @during stuff yet ...).
- If GNUstep provides this functionality soon or even today,
it should be a snap to attract some Cocoa developers starving
for GC already.
It doesn't because a _Cocoa_ developer gains nothing from that. He
actually looses Cocoa compatibility.
This is the major reason why we stopped using Boehm-GC. Its _very_
cool on Linux/ix86, but you loose compatibility with Cocoa (and a lot
of other platforms where Boehm-GC is not available).
Greets,
Helge
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