<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 20, 2024, at 1:19 PM, Tim Bradshaw <<a href="mailto:tfb@tfeb.org" class="">tfb@tfeb.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class="">On 20 May 2024, at 19:29, Tim McNerney <<a href="mailto:mc@media.mit.edu" class="">mc@media.mit.edu</a>> wrote:</div><div dir="ltr" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class=""></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">That the spec says <i class="">nothing</i> about garbage collection would explain why this topic has never been on my radar. </div></blockquote><br class=""><div class="">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 class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(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></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>What kind of computer do you have that lets you install RAM without rebooting???</div><div><br class=""></div><div>My own implementation has a paper factory at each end of an ever-growing spool of tape, but your idea sounds better. It's getting harder and harder to find trees around here.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>rg</div><div><br class=""></div></body></html>