Re: Some very thought-provoking ideas about OS architecture.

Larry McVoy (lm@bitmover.com)
Sun, 20 Jun 1999 16:55:34 -0600

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: Your argument here is
: essentially the argument for malloc(3) as opposed to unlimited-extent
: types and garbage collection.

And it is a good argument. Garbage collection is a fine thing for those
who want to use it, but as a fundamental part of the system? Please dont.
It's just a bad, bad idea.

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