At 12:46 PM 9/10/2001 -0400, Jason Gloudon wrote:

>Will the buffers associated with a string be managed by Parrot's memory
>management, and be visible to the garbage collector ? Or will these buffers be
>allocated from their own pool of memory not subject to garbage collection.

They'll be GC'd. (Except in a very few circumstances, for example when 
pointing to a shared buffer, memory Parrot doesn't own, or memory that 
can't move because it's passed to an external library or hardware)

                                        Dan

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