Re: the advantages of garbage collection -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: the advantages of garbage collection
From: David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 11:50:08 -0500
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Steve Richter wrote:

regarding the future viability of RPG, I think a language has to have
garbage collection and built in object reference tracking ( which
enables the garbage collector to know when the object can be freed ).

I don't follow what garbage collection has to do with RPG.

Object garbage collection is important for a language that uses objects ... RPG doesn't.

Garbage collection is needed to free up memory used by unreferenced objects ... since RPG doesn't have objects, there can be no unreferenced objects ... thus, no need for garbage collection.

Anyways ... garbage collection isn't a function of the LANGUAGE ... it's a function of the execution environment. JAVA the language doesn't implement garbage collection ... the java Virtual Machine does.

david

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