ORBit and the Boehm garbage collector

[Philip Lijnzaad <lijnzaad ebi ac uk>]

Dear all, 

just a brief question: 

has anyone tried to compile ORBit (and servers, and clients) using a garbage
collector such as the one by Hans Boehm (see
http://reality.sgi.com/boehm_mti/gc.html) ?

I imagine that this could be made to work easily, and would make programming
with ORBit that much easier.

Also, it would make adding yet more language mappings easier, because the
resource management that much easier

Cheers,

                                                                      Philip

ps: in case this wasn't clear, I am _not_ talking about garbage collection of
    distributed objects, just about not having to explicitly free() and
    release() etc. everything locally.

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