John M McIntosh johnmci@smalltalkconsulting.com is claimed by the authorities to have written:
PS back to my GC paper, where I say I'm waiting for the days when you can allocate a few trillion bytes, run the VM, quit and never need to do a GC. That's a more effective solution.
That was once a serious suggestion in a paper I read; the suggestion was that virtual memory solved the problem since all you had to do was page out garbage. Slight problem with the (then extant) data rates & disk sizes - Smalltalk would have filled the disk in a few minutes :-)
It might take a little longer these days, but still not long enough to be interesting, I think.
tim