[mercury-users] Native garbage collector for Mercury

[Tyson Dowd]

On 10-Sep-1998, Randall Helzerman <rahelzer at ichips.intel.com> wrote:
> Quick question:  Will the mercury's planned native garbage collector
> support hard real time operation?

No, but as Fergus points out, the information necessary for the native
collector may be used for a number of different collectors.  
The collector currently just does a stop and copy (mostly
because it's easy to implement), but is limited to deterministic
code and isn't very well tested.  There are numerous improvements
that need to be made without even considering real time.

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