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From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-11-18 07:52:52
At 09:33 PM 11/17/2003, David B. Held wrote:
> I guess I'm
>just not getting what is suprising about allocating an external
>count on the heap to begin with. It seems to me that external
>counting is the insight, and not how it's implemented.
It was one of those ideas that was so simple that everyone who saw it
thought they must have already invented it themselves. And perhaps a few
actually did. But Greg was the source of the technique for most people
AFAIK.
--Beman
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