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Re: the advantages of garbage collection

But that's not true. A good GC can improve the performance of code simply
by moving in-use memory around.

Could you expound on this point? Does it make it more efficient by making
memory contiguous similar to how a HD defrag works?

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 5:23 PM, Walden H. Leverich <WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I.e., there is zero point to 'garbage collection' when no garbage is
generated. This is even true if it's only that garbage can't be
recognized.

But that's not true. A good GC can improve the performance of code
simply by moving in-use memory around.

-Walden

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