pending 64bit version of squeak

John M McIntosh johnmci at mac.com
Thu Jul 3 20:42:58 UTC 2003


> On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, John M McIntosh wrote:
>
> > Nope, you forget as I did (and Tim then reminded me) that you just  
> fall
> > back to a reference counting GC.
>
> Doesn't that mean you have to start worrying about cycles?
>

Yes, but you need a mark/sweep/compacting GC to compact things at some  
point, so you deal
with cyclical issues then.

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