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[Pascal Obry]

skaller,

 > Not entirely Some efficient algorithms require a garbage
 > collector. FPLs such as Ocaml and Haskell provide one,

I certainly do not agree. A garbage collector is certainly slower
than a simple hand-written reference counter. And I don't see
why a garbage collector would make an algorithm implementation
faster !!!!

Pascal.

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