Re: garbage collection

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Enrico Weigelt <weigelt metux de> writes:

> has anyone thought about integrating an garbage collector 
> in glib/gtk ?
> 
> this would reduce the chance of broken pointers and wasted 
> memory dramatically.

Yes, its been discussed.  If you hunt through the gtk-devel-list
archives, you'll find a post from Havoc Pennington where he discusses
some experiments he made using the Boehm GC.

The trouble with depending on a garbage collector is one of
integrating with other software which doesn't use a garbage collector,
or uses an incompatible garbage collector. For that reason, it's not
practical at the present time to depend on one for GTK+.

Regards,
                                        Owen