"Kasra" <kasra_n500@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:794765.62156.qm@web110015.mail.gq1.yahoo.com...
I have interest in garbage collection. However, I have few questions about this library.
* How is it going to be better than The Boehm GC? * Why isn't it a wrapper for Bohem?
Here is a list of issues with Boehm GC: 1) the default C++ interface does not play well with C++ (as Boehm says here: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/gcinterface.html). 2) in order to have GC'd threads, you need to replace native thread creation calls with Boehm GC thread creation calls. This means the Boehm GC library can not be used with third-party libraries that contain a threading API on top of native threads. 3) if you allocate data before calling GC_INIT() (for example, when initializing global variables), then they might not be collected. This is platform-specific, i.e. it works with some platforms, it does not work with some other platforms. 4) it's not clear what happens with allocations from DLLs. This library is not better than Boehm's gc (certainly slower than Boehm's), but it is portable C++.