From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2007-12-31T17:14:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Destroying an Object


On Dec 30, 2007, at 09:46 , Rick DeNatale wrote:

> So both of these GC implementations return the space used by every
> object at the instance the last reference to that object is lost?

That wasn't what I was claiming of the GC I wrote, nor is that an  
attribute of conservative GCs (or any GC I know of). Instantaneous  
collection wasn't a part of this thread at all. The complaint (from  
Sam), as I interpreted it, was that conservative GCs sometimes NEVER  
collect an object (which is what makes them conservative), and that is  
all I was addressing.