5 Aug
2006
5 Aug
'06
12:56 a.m.
Hi! Sheplyakov Alexei wrote:
2) As a matter of fact, using general-purpose conservative GC prevents one from solving any real-world problems (see Mathematica).
Actually, Mathematica objects are reference counted. (Section A.9.2 "Data Structures and Memory Management" of the Mathematica 5.2 Documentation says, that "Every piece of memory used by Mathematica maintains a count of how many times it is referenced. Memory is automatically freed when this count reaches zero.") Regards -richy. -- Richard B. Kreckel <http://www.ginac.de/~kreckel/>