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From: "Chris Gray" <cg@ami-cg.GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Sun, 25 May 97 10:33:43 MST
Organization: Kanga.Nu
[Miro:]
:(I consider GC to be the key feature of a MUD language, after
:incredible ammount of time wasted on tracing leaks, bad access,
:and similar problems. C++ constructors and destructors alleviate
:this problem, but if you run out of luck, not even Purify will
:save you.)
Is that in the MUD language, or the language used to implement the MUD?
Neither of mine has a garbage collector. The implementation language is
like C with syntax. The MUD language has types like strings, lists, tables,
etc. mostly stored in the database (not strings, which are not use-
counted). When a db entity's usecount goes to zero, it is deleted, and
the use-counts of anything it points at decremented, etc.
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Chris Gray cg@ami-cg.GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA