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  3. June 2008

RE: the advantages of garbage collection

Yes. I don't understand your point.
...
If you allocate memory for a variable, it's your responsibility
to deallocate it.

I was referring to your previous point that:

If, however, you're taking about deallocating memory that was
programactially allocated by the application, then no GC routine in
existence can clean that up ... as only the application knows what is
still in use.

In RPG and ILE there is no GC, therefore obviously the (non-existant) GC
routine won't cleanup. :) But in a GC world, I was pointing out that
even application-allocated memory can be (and will be) cleaned up by the
GC. GC cleanup is for _all_ memory, not just memory allocated for
previously declared variables.

-Walden


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