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diff --git a/development/gc/README b/development/gc/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..4d1c6872e2 --- /dev/null +++ b/development/gc/README @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +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. + |