Re: [Lush-users] compiling dynamic data structures

[Ralf J. <jue...@cs...>]

On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Leon Bottou wrote:

> Yes.
> The creation of an object might also implicitely create lots of
> other objects (the contents of its slots for instance).
> If you only delete the object, you reclaim only a fragment of the memory.
> So you'd have to track the dependencies and build a full runtime garbage collector.

OTOH, the in-pool facility as it is right now already is a hack
where one needs to be mindful when using it. Why not, for now, add
a plain, simple deallocation function so that at least one could
do what one can do in C (it's all I need for my binary search tree,
for instance)?

Ralf