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From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Mission-Critical Design: Ada.Unchecked_Deallocation vs Garbage
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On 07/17/2014 11:17 PM, NiGHTS wrote:
> In mission-critical design applications, do they favor garbage collectors or
> the unchecked deallocation?
>
> What are your thoughts on this? When is it better to use garbage collection
> and when is it better to use classic new & delete memory management when a
> life may be on the line?

Typically, safety-critical systems don't allow dynamic allocation and deallocation.

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