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| author | Robby Workman <rw@rlworkman.net> | 2010-05-11 14:05:51 +0200 |
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| committer | Eric Hameleers <alien@slackbuilds.org> | 2010-05-11 14:05:51 +0200 |
| commit | 0a4ab1d2f9c243c0517686f25e3b72d976389c36 (patch) | |
| tree | 80e3e004d539230f19dea1dc1f88e418540a91b0 /development/gc/README | |
| parent | 61e7763ae2a02320215395990ab0df57a9010308 (diff) | |
development/gc: Initial import
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diff --git a/development/gc/README b/development/gc/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..4d1c6872e296 --- /dev/null +++ b/development/gc/README @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +The Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative garbage collector can be used as a +garbage collecting replacement for C malloc or C++ new. It allows you to +allocate memory basically as you normally would, without explicitly +deallocating memory that is no longer useful. The collector automatically +recycles memory when it determines that it can no longer be otherwise +accessed. + +The collector is also used by a number of programming language +implementations that either use C as intermediate code, want to +facilitate easier interoperation with C libraries, or just prefer +the simple collector interface. + |