Mailing List Archive: GC SIG

GC SIG

Jun 8, 1999, 1:39 PM

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Greetings ---

Are there enough potential Sanitation Engineers to create a Garbage
Collection SIG?

This would have several benefits:

1) A crack team of dedicated professionals could quickly decide on the
optimum solution, implement it, and live forever in fame and glory.
<huzzah!>

2) The GC discussions would be moved out of the general mailing
list/newsgroup, freeing them of the constant debate. <huzzah again!>

3) When someone new shows up with a scheme for garbage collection, the
regulars on the ML/NG can bombard him or her with FTSS (Find The Stinking
SIG) messages. <quiet murmur as future satisfaction is anticipated>

Since it's nice to put your money where your mouth is, I'm willing to
serve as the SIG coordinator as long as everyone understands that:

a) I have only token knowledge of such things as compiler or interpreter
design.

b) What I know about garbage collection schemes could fill a very small
wastebasket.

If anyone even remotely more qualified is willing to take the job, I'll
*gladly* remove my hat from the ring.

Your humble servant,
--- Robert

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Robert Meegan
MCIWorldCom - Cedar Rapids, Iowa
319.375.2416

GC SIG [ In reply to ]

fleck at informatik

Jun 8, 1999, 6:01 PM

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Robert Meegan <Robert.Meegan@wcom.com> wrote:
> Are there enough potential Sanitation Engineers to create a Garbage
> Collection SIG?
> ...
> 2) The GC discussions would be moved out of the general mailing
> list/newsgroup, freeing them of the constant debate. <huzzah again!>

Hmmm... exactly which kind of "garbage collection" are you referring to? :-)

Yours,
Markus.

--
If it ain't broken, better don't tempt to affix it. <0.5 broken wink>

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guido at cnri

Jun 9, 1999, 9:50 PM

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Robert Meegan <Robert.Meegan@wcom.com> writes:

> Are there enough potential Sanitation Engineers to create a Garbage
> Collection SIG?

Rather than create a hell (mailing list) where the discussion can go
on forever without ever concluding, why not create a bible (FAQ) that
summarizes all arguments pro and con once and for all? Then when the
issue is raised, we can simply point to the GC FAQ.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)