[gclist] GC topics

[Chris Reedy]

At 12:59 AM 2/20/96 -0500, John R Levine wrote:
>OK, the gclist now has over 70 subscribers and nobody's had anything
>to say yet.  Here's some topics that might be of interest (or might not):
> ...
> -- following a previous thread in comp.compilers, what does it mean for a
>    language like C++ or Ada to have optional GC?  How can you write useful
>    programs that will work portably with such a setup?
>
On topic I would like to get an answer to:

I would like to use GC for business applications with GUIs.  However, the
systems using GC with which I am personally familiar (e.g. Lisp) have the
problem that a GC causes the GUI to stutter or hang and annoy the user.

My questions: To what extent is this a problem with GC in general as
opposed to the specific implementation of GC?  If this is a specific
implementation problem, are products available that use or support GC
(particularly for C or C++) that don't suffer from this problem?  If
products aren't available, when might I expect to see them?

  Thanks, Chris

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