2010-05-11 14:05:51 +02:00
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The Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative garbage collector can be used as a
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garbage collecting replacement for C malloc or C++ new. It allows you to
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allocate memory basically as you normally would, without explicitly
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deallocating memory that is no longer useful. The collector automatically
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recycles memory when it determines that it can no longer be otherwise
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accessed.
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The collector is also used by a number of programming language
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implementations that either use C as intermediate code, want to
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facilitate easier interoperation with C libraries, or just prefer
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the simple collector interface.
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2012-09-08 05:29:23 +02:00
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libatomic_ops is an optional dependency, but gc will use an internal copy
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if it's not already installed on the system.
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