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On Thursday, May 29, 2003, at 10:30 AM, Thatcher Ulrich wrote:
IMO the *ideal* GC would always collect objects, in a well-defined and "intuitive" order, the moment they become unreachable.
I've often wondered if it were possible to design a memory such that pointers are not a number but an open circuit. Close the circuit and the power to the objects' "live" bits turns off and they cease to exist. More of a metaphor than something that could be implemented directly. But some way of using hardware circuits to do your pointer tracing at the speed of light.
-- --- james mccartney