Re: the advantages of garbage collection -- RPG400-L

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Subject: Re: the advantages of garbage collection
From: "Mark S. Waterbury" <mark.s.waterbury@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:04:11 -0400
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Garbage collection is a method for implementing automatic memory management.
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_collection_(computer_science)
or
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?GarbageCollection

See also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_management

Here is a "leak detector" for the ILE heap, from IBM, with source code:
http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/enable/site/porting/iseries/overview/debug_heap/

Cheers,

Mark S. Waterbury

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