From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id JAA10354 for caml-red; Mon, 13 Nov 2000 09:16:42 +0100 (MET) Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA19082 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2000 08:45:00 +0100 (MET) Received: from nenuphar.saclay.cea.fr (nenuphar.saclay.cea.fr [132.166.192.7]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id eAD7ixf01577 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2000 08:44:59 +0100 (MET) Received: from muguet.saclay.cea.fr (muguet.saclay.cea.fr [132.166.192.6]) by nenuphar.saclay.cea.fr (8.9.1a/8.9.1/CEAnet-relay-5.0.D20+Y2K) with ESMTP id IAA05968 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2000 08:44:54 +0100 (MET) Received: from harpie.saclay.cea.fr (harpie.saclay.cea.fr [132.166.133.152]) by muguet.saclay.cea.fr (8.9.1a/8.9.1/CEAnet-relay-5.2.D20+Y2K) with ESMTP id IAA02351; Mon, 13 Nov 2000 08:44:53 +0100 (MET) Received: by harpie.saclay.cea.fr (8.8.8+Sun/CEANET.2.0.1) id IAA14933; Mon, 13 Nov 2000 08:45:03 +0100 (MET) From: STARYNKEVITCH Basile Message-ID: <14863.39934.843931.721384@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 08:45:02 +0100 To: John Max Skaller CC: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: practical functional programming In-Reply-To: <3A0D5877.5276798B@ozemail.com.au> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20001103055229.00ab6880@shell16.ba.best.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20001106100700.00c447b0@shell16.ba.best.com> <00110709260602.01341@pcrm> <3A0D5877.5276798B@ozemail.com.au> X-Mailer: VM 6.76 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: weis@pauillac.inria.fr >>>>> "John" == John Max Skaller writes: John> Stephan Houben wrote: >> Reference counting is a (bad) substitute for real garbage >> collection, such as O'Caml has. No need for refcounting, since >> we have GC. John> I can't quite agree with that: reference counting is a John> _different_ technique with different properties. In the John> right circumstances it is faster than garbage collection Actually I will be picky and disagree with both John and Stephan. Reference counting is a (generally poor) garbage collection technique. See Lins and Jones' book on "Garbage Collection". The appropriate mailing list is the garbage collection list "http://www.iecc.com/gclist/" also archived at "http://lists.tunes.org/mailman/listinfo" Regards. N.B. Any opinions expressed here are only mine, and not of my organization. N.B. Les opinions exprimees ici me sont personnelles et n engagent pas le CEA. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Basile STARYNKEVITCH ---- Commissariat à l Energie Atomique DTA/LETI/DEIN/SLA * CEA/Saclay b.528 (p111f) * 91191 GIF/YVETTE CEDEX * France phone: 1,69.08.60.55; fax: 1.69.08.83.95 home: 1,46.65.45.53 email: Basile point Starynkevitch at cea point fr