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diff --git a/development/gc/README b/development/gc/README deleted file mode 100644 index fc5ab50a46..0000000000 --- a/development/gc/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,14 +0,0 @@ -The Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative garbage collector can be used as a -garbage collecting replacement for C malloc or C++ new. It allows you to -allocate memory basically as you normally would, without explicitly -deallocating memory that is no longer useful. The collector automatically -recycles memory when it determines that it can no longer be otherwise -accessed. - -The collector is also used by a number of programming language -implementations that either use C as intermediate code, want to -facilitate easier interoperation with C libraries, or just prefer -the simple collector interface. - -libatomic_ops is an optional dependency, but gc will use an internal copy -if it's not already installed on the system. |