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Re: Garbage collection with -finalize?


From: Helge Hess
Subject: Re: Garbage collection with -finalize?
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 13:23:55 +0100

On 2. Dez 2005, at 09:57 Uhr, Markus Hitter wrote:
 - Will GNUstep's GC be at least somewhat compatible with this?

The approach is completely different. Apple builds the GC support into compiler while GNUstep(/libFoundation) currently uses Boehm-GC, a conservative GC.

Hopefully the gcc-based implementation one day will also work with GNUstep (but then we also do not have @during stuff yet ...).

 - If GNUstep provides this functionality soon or even today,
it should be a snap to attract some Cocoa developers starving for GC already.

It doesn't because a _Cocoa_ developer gains nothing from that. He actually looses Cocoa compatibility. This is the major reason why we stopped using Boehm-GC. Its _very_ cool on Linux/ix86, but you loose compatibility with Cocoa (and a lot of other platforms where Boehm-GC is not available).

Greets,
  Helge
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