Re: [ns] garbage collector

[Haobo Yu <haoboy@catarina.usc.edu>]

There is absolutely NO garbage collector in ns. Or to be exact, tclcl does
not implement garbage collection so you should be very careful about not
only your c++ objects, but also your shadow objects. Please see chapter 18
of ns manual for a bit more information.

However, things are completely different in pure tcl. It does not need a
garbage collector because of its language design.

- Haobo

On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Robin Poss wrote:

> Hello, 
> I assume that there is no garbage collection implemented in ns,
> and so that every time I allocate an object  ( in C++ ) using
> new I should destroy it later using delete.
> Am I right?
> Thanks,
>  --  
> Robin
>