Month: May 2008
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GCC Garbage
gcc uses garbage collection internally during the course of a compilation. I wasn’t too involved with gcc at the time that garbage collection was introduced, but I certainly saw the problems that it was trying to solve. Before garbage collection, gcc allocated memory using obstacks. An obstack is a memory allocation pool in which if…
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Raise the Gas Tax
I see that both McCain and Clinton are suggesting that the gas tax should be abolished for the summer. Obama is resisting that, though he voted in favor of a similar proposal back in 2000 as a state senator. Dropping the gas tax would be hideously irresponsible. The U.S. must start weaning itself off of…