Re: the advantages of garbage collection

I am wondering if the fundamental infrastructure difference in the languages
is what necessitates garbage collection more in Java and xxx.NET vs. RPG.
For example, in RPG you pass around less information in memory than Java (in
my experience) in that you don't (or rather aren't able to) pass entire
Collections (i.e. result sets) from one method/object to another.

Unfortunately I am not well versed on memory management and the like so I
can't speak with much authority other than offering up questions. Can
anybody speak to that?

... join to columns in another result set, sort the rows, then pass the

object on to another program which creates an XML document from the
collected data.

Is all this being done in memory? How involved are temporary MSSQL tables
involved in the process, or is it more part of C# that is performing these
functions?

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 6:53 AM, Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 7:03 AM, David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Tony.Weston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Well... Garbage collection doesn't have to use objects...

I guess my point was this: Does the environment in which RPG operates
*NEED* a garbage collection mechanism? Is it suffering from problems
related to lack of garbage collection?

in order to improve the language like MSFT has improved C# these last
few years, GC and other base features are a necessity. A good example
for me is SQL result sets. There is a lot of business functions which
can be performed on result sets and other data collection objects.
Call an sql procedure, get a result set in return, access the columns
collection of the result set, join to columns in another result set,
sort the rows, then pass the object on to another program which
creates an XML document from the collected data.
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