Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Joshua Cranmer Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Managed-Code Bloat Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 20:13:00 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 03:13:02 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="bAymlyY9SkaJNa8Tz2rerw"; logging-data="11610"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19NfRsqFB8ZeK3zijxVurJ6oEQuArWiRnw=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.10 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:tV6mGJgAvPPbv2a0FtPJUOSxEqE= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:5050 On 6/6/2011 6:38 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > In message, Joshua Cranmer wrote: >> Both SpiderMonkey and V8 are garbage-collected. > > Probably same here. That is not the case. I have actually patched the source code to SpiderMonkey myself, I have literally sat next to the people who work on the engine, SpiderMonkey is garbage-collected. Mark-and-trace, although the plan is to move to generational GC. I'm not so sure about V8, but the page I linked to explicitly mentions generational garbage collection, so I'm sure it's in the same boat. If you don't believe that, what would it take to get you to believe the truth? A signed note from Brendan Eich himself? -- Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth