• WhatMeWorry (4/4) May 21 2013 a self referential question came to mind: what collects the
• =?UTF-8?B?QWxpIMOHZWhyZWxp?= (8/9) May 21 2013 Without knowing the details, I wouldn't be surprised. There are various
• Steven Schveighoffer (8/12) May 21 2013 The garbage collector manually manages its internal memory structures. ...

"WhatMeWorry" <kc_heaser yahoo.com> writes:

a self referential question came to mind: what collects the 
garbage collector's garbage?  And I'm not trying to be a 
smart-alec here. I'm generally curious. Is a Garbage Collector 
written without garbage collection?

=?UTF-8?B?QWxpIMOHZWhyZWxp?= <acehreli yahoo.com> writes:

On 05/21/2013 08:18 AM, WhatMeWorry wrote:

 Is a Garbage Collector written without garbage collection?

Without knowing the details, I wouldn't be surprised. There are various 
memory management schemes. Here is a short article that lists some of them:

   http://dlang.org/memory.html

Unfortunately, it is pretty dated. Somebody should click [Improve this 
page] and fix some parts of it. :p At least the "scope storage class" is 
now replaced by Phobos's 'scoped'.

Ali

"Steven Schveighoffer" <schveiguy yahoo.com> writes:

On Tue, 21 May 2013 11:18:25 -0400, WhatMeWorry <kc_heaser yahoo.com>  
wrote:

 a self referential question came to mind: what collects the garbage  
 collector's garbage?  And I'm not trying to be a smart-alec here. I'm  
 generally curious. Is a Garbage Collector written without garbage  
 collection?

The garbage collector manually manages its internal memory structures.  In  
general, there is no need to collect any GC memory, because it doesn't  
allocate any unless requested to do so.  When it does, any metadata lives  
as long as the memory lives.  In the cases where memory is returned to the  
OS (via GC.minimize), the metadata goes along with it.

-Steve