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Re: Why IDL needs Garbage Collection [message #44938 is a reply to message #44930]

Wed, 20 July 2005 15:07

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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JD Smith writes:

> This is why RSI needs to implement a simple but effective garbage
> collection paradigm in the next version of IDL. Anyone agree?

There is no question this becomes a problem in even
moderately sized object applications. We have written
a very simple reference counting mechanism in Catalyst
that works well, but I agree the memory management would
be a nightmare without it.

But if we are already starting our annual Top Ten List,
I am becoming convinced that no one will be writing large
object applications until it is possible to inherit from
multiple objects without running into structure field
name restrictions. It is possible to work around it, but
only by duplicating code and stepping into that same
code maintenance quagmire object programming is suppose
to get you out of.

Cheers,

David
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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/

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