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From: "Mark Habersack" <grendel AT hoth DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
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Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 13:17:04 +0100
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Once upon a time (on 26 Apr 97 at 10:45) Alaric B. Williams said:

> On 25 Apr 97 at 14:41, Mark Habersack wrote:
> 
> > > A garbage collector is a process that deallocates memory automatically.
> > > With
> [...]
> > mmm... sounds sensible. Do you know of any GC already working somewhere?
> 
> Erm... there are zillions! Look on the web for Hans Boehm's GC for C. It's
> about as good as GC can get under C. Languages with "real" pointers do
> better from it.
I meant some GC for an *operating system", not for a single application. Even 
Borland has such one! ;-)

> > And what about the 'flexible' swapfiles - they out of definition cannot be
> > stored in solid blocks?
> 
> In which case, treat them like any other file, just as eligible for
> defragmentation.
Right.
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