Anonymous
6/21/2025, 12:11:41 AM
No.105655683
>>105648702
>garbage collection
He invented mark and sweep. Not garbage collection.
Operating systems reclaimed memory from processes before 1959 and they let you spawn subprocesses. If the process is dead then the memory clearly isn't reachable and can thus be reclaimed, Mcarthy just decided you could halt a program at any time and do this rather than wait for it to finish. It's not particularly innovative.
>garbage collection
He invented mark and sweep. Not garbage collection.
Operating systems reclaimed memory from processes before 1959 and they let you spawn subprocesses. If the process is dead then the memory clearly isn't reachable and can thus be reclaimed, Mcarthy just decided you could halt a program at any time and do this rather than wait for it to finish. It's not particularly innovative.