From owner-freebsd-current Thu Aug 6 09:03:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA28619 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 09:03:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from austin.polstra.com (austin.polstra.com [206.213.73.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA28614 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 09:03:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@austin.polstra.com) Received: from austin.polstra.com (jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA26197; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 09:03:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp) Message-Id: <199808061603.JAA26197@austin.polstra.com> To: tlambert@primenet.com Subject: Re: Heads up on LFS In-Reply-To: <199808060606.XAA22855@usr09.primenet.com> References: <199808060606.XAA22855@usr09.primenet.com> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1998 09:03:07 -0700 From: John Polstra Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <199808060606.XAA22855@usr09.primenet.com>, Terry Lambert wrote: > JAVA has a nasty tendency to leak like a sieve until the GC hits a > steady state. As does Modula 3. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I don't know what you base that statement on. I have a lot of experience writing and using Modula-3 programs, and I've never observed the behavior you describe. -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message