Re: [Dynapi-Dev] Continuing Freeing memory

[Raymond S. <dst...@or...>]

My post was a quote from O'Rielly's.  Also, I am gathering all the data I
can find that might be pertinent to finding what works.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Emberson" <emb...@co...>
To: <dyn...@li...>
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 9:10 AM
Subject: Re: [Dynapi-Dev] Continuing Freeing memory


> Raymond Smith wrote:
>
> > Sounds like we need a "null cycle killer".  Damn sure circular
references a
> > playing a big roll in our leak...
> >
>
> A good, modern gc collects cycles. The Boehm gc does and so does java's. I
> assume
> M$ uses similar technology. Don't know what NS does. All
> memory allocated is kept track of. Starting from a set of "well known
objects"
> (top
> level objects) one sweeps marking all reachable objects (and not
traversing
> objects
> more than once). Then all objects that have not been marked are collected.
> Cycles are NOT a problem.
>
> Richard Emberson
>
>
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