GC ( Was: Re: ObjectiveC accessors)

[Stefan Urbanek]

On 2004-05-30 12:40:06 +0200 David Ayers <address@hidden> wrote:

> Stefan Urbanek wrote:
> > Speaking about retain/release being OpenStep specific. Why not to include 
> > some kind of garbage collection into the language too? It is used in 
> > majority of sources. Of course, with appropriate library hooks/callbacks, 
> > so one can implement custom GC method. I think it can be done in some 
> > simple way.
>
> The GNU runtime can be configured with garbage collection enabled. GNUstep 
> uses the RETAIN/RELEASE/AUTORELEASE related macros because of this.  It also 
> introduces the gnugc-gnu-gnu library combo for the GC enabled runtime.  I 
> don't think this gets much testing though, but that's pure speculation.

Why it is not used? Just lack of recommendations/advertising or are there some 
other reasons? What are the problems with the GC (... that can not be solved)?

s.
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