Harrump: Garbage collection.

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Does anybody have any experience with Boehm collector with Tcl? I tried it
and I'm getting strange results on the Mac. I'm sort of wonder if I should
even try. I was kind of hoping to start using 1965-style programming
(Lisp, Algol 68, etc) before the end of the millenium.

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[Donal K. Fellows]

In article <smjames-0709...@ppp-207-214-212-91.sntc01.pacbell.net>,

!**?#!#$ <smj...@my-dejanews.com> wrote:
> Does anybody have any experience with Boehm collector with Tcl? I tried it
> and I'm getting strange results on the Mac. I'm sort of wonder if I should
> even try. I was kind of hoping to start using 1965-style programming
> (Lisp, Algol 68, etc) before the end of the millenium.

If you're using just Tcl (and not hacking with extensions) then the
system is (mostly) automatically "garbage collected" anyway. (Some
resources don't appear to be, but that is usually because there are
still ways to get handles for them anyway - the only mechanism that
guarantees that resources go away is to discard the interpreter you're
working in.)

Or do you mean something completely different? If you want garbage
collection for writing extensions, perhaps you should refer to
TclBlend and Jacl instead so you can use Java as your extension
language instead of C (and its derivatives.)

Donal.
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