> A garbage collector has to scan all the data in memory to decide which bits are needed and which bits are garbage.
This is actually not right. GC does not have to (as opposed to _can_) scan everything. Some (e.g. copying) GCs scan only the objects that are referenced (live objects). And in generational GCs the set of objects scanned is usually a fraction of live objects (recently created ones).
I mean -- if one does not do anything illegal online then what the fuss is about? And if one does something illegal on- or off-line then one should be punished for one's own deeds.
Everybody can post shit about anything or anyone anonymously. I'd be happy to see less of their crap all over the place.
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The next thing they reinvent will be Emacs' kill ring...
And yet agean we can witness this wonderful rule at work...
> The only language system in my experience that meets all of the specified criteria is Common Lisp with CLOS.
As if there was a Common Lisp without CLOS.
> A garbage collector has to scan all the data in memory to decide which bits are needed and which bits are garbage.
This is actually not right. GC does not have to (as opposed to _can_) scan everything. Some (e.g. copying) GCs scan only the objects that are referenced (live objects). And in generational GCs the set of objects scanned is usually a fraction of live objects (recently created ones).
I mean -- if one does not do anything illegal online then what the fuss is about? And if one does something illegal on- or off-line then one should be punished for one's own deeds.
Everybody can post shit about anything or anyone anonymously. I'd be happy to see less of their crap all over the place.
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