[gclist] gclist is still alive but not very active

[Amit Patel]

John R. Levine wrote to me on November 5:
> The gclist mailing list hasn't had any posts for two months, although it has
> over 400 subscribers.  Have we really solved all of the problems of GC? 

Well I can only tell you why my interest in GC has been greatly reduced:

The project I am currently working on has very little allocation.
There are a few big arrays allocated at program startup, and then
deallocated at program exit.  Garbage collection doesn't help me! :)


      - Amit


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Amit J Patel, Computer Science Department, Stanford University 
       ``A language based on point and click is like a 
         human language based on point and grunt.'' -- me