<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">On 20 May 2024, at 19:29, Tim McNerney <mc@media.mit.edu> wrote:</div><div dir="ltr"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">That the spec says <i>nothing</i> about garbage collection would explain why this topic has never been on my radar. </div></blockquote><br><div>It would be astonishing if it did, because almost anything it might say would be tantamount to mandating some specific memory-management strategy, and that's not a language standard, it's an implementation standard.</div><div><br></div><div>(My own implementation works by raising a purchase order for more memory, then pausing until it is installed. This is a mostly-viable approach on 64-bit systems.)</div><div><br></div><div>--tim</div></body></html>