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  3. June 2008

Re: the advantages of garbage collection

I'm still not entirely sure I'm following you ... however ...

Walden H. Leverich wrote:
In RPG and ILE there is no GC, therefore obviously the (non-existant)
GC routine won't cleanup. :)

Right ... and my point is: Is this a problem?

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.

In Java (the only environment I know in any detail in which GC is
employed) GC doesn't cleanup ALL memory ... just memory that's occupied
by objects no longer referenced. This is good. This is what it's
supposed to do.

I'm not sure what you mean by 'application-allocated memory'. Isn't all
the memory allocated to objects (in Java) allocated by the application?

david


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