Re: Garbage Collection for Cocoa?
Re: Garbage Collection for Cocoa?
- Subject: Re: Garbage Collection for Cocoa?
- From: Martin Häcker <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:19:56 +0100
At 23:42 Uhr +1300 02.11.2003, Keith Bauer wrote:
I've been idly wondering whether it would be possible to get garbage
collection in Objective C.
The Boehm-Demers-Weiser collector (used by GCJ, d2c, &c) seems quite
stable on Mac OS X these days, so hopefully it would just be a
matter of slotting GC_malloc into appropriate places in the ObjC
runtime...
Does anyone know where I should start? Override +alloc for NSObject
maybe? Or even lower -- somehow replace NSAllocateObject? Or lower
still -- actually replace the system malloc?
For where to start, you could have a look at GnuStep, as they employ
the Garbace Collector for there version of the Foundation for quite
some time now.
Are there any obvious pitfalls awaiting me here?
Perhaps they can tell you more on that subject.
cu Martin
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