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From: Brian Hook <brianhook@pyrogon.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 15:40:30 -0400
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
I've been doing some more research into garbage collection lately
and I'm trying to get a feel for what the current major MUD
languages/engines use for garbage collection.
My gut instinct is that a vanilla mark-and-sweep probably isn't
acceptable because of hitches, so either most are using explicit
memory management (doubtful), ref-counting (likely), or an
incremental collector (complicated).
Anyone have any data or pointers on this?
Thanks,
Brian
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