Re: Proposal to package C/C++ garbage collector

["Oliver Elphick" <olly@linda.lfix.co.uk>]

Enrique Zanardi wrote:
  >On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Oliver Elphick wrote:
  >
  >> The names `gc', or `libgc' seem likely to cause confusion, so I propose to
  >> call the package `boehmgc'.  The actual library, though, will be libgc.so 
      >or 
  >> libgc.a.  Comments, please?
  >
  >What about a name related to the functionality, like "garbcoll"? I guess 
  >not many people remember the name of the author of the programs they use...

The trouble is that there are other garbage collectors.  To use a name like
that preempts every other one.  I thought that would be a bit unfriendly.

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