Tom Duff;<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">The last time I<br>
looked, a couple of months ago, Chuck&#39;s garbage collector was a stub, and<br>
even the stub wasn&#39;t called from anywhere.  It doesn&#39;t have one! </blockquote><div><br> </div></div>To place one note in the margin of your post (that I otherwise agree with); We do seem to have some garbage collection or at least we have some reference counting and collection. A while ago Mike had his big fight with the type system and according to the latest theories -if I remember correctly- under some conditions passing references to objects (especially home-made classes in arrays) there would be one reference too many that would be removed which would lead to extremely hard to trace crashes.<br>
<br>As far as I know at that point we had a bug in the GC we don&#39;t fully have yet.<br><br>Aside from that I agree with what you said (at least the things I already know about). I also would like to remark that Ge&amp;co have been thinking about GC for a long time now. I&#39;m certain they will already be aware of any and all papers on GC in realtime systems as the problem is well known and recognised. Evidently it&#39;s solvable as SC seems to be doing fine as well.<br>
<br>Oh, and I&#39;d like to also mention that I *have* made ChucK use virtual memory. I found that when you get into that kind of situation, in my exprerience, you won&#39;t be running in realtime but will be making coffee (or dinner!) while your laptop&#39;s fan gets a workout ;-).<br>
<br>Yours,<br>Kas.<br>