Gc

4 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Gc
       n : 1,000,000,000 periods per second [syn: {gigahertz}, {GHz}, {gigacycle
           per second}, {gigacycle}]

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:



  GC
       Global Catalog (MS, AD)
       
       

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  GC /G-C/ [from LISP terminology; `Garbage Collect'] 1. vt. To clean up
     and throw away useless things. "I think I'll GC the top of my desk
     today." When said of files, this is equivalent to {GFR}. 2. vt. To
     recycle, reclaim, or put to another use. 3. n. An instantiation of the
     garbage collector process.
  
     `Garbage collection' is computer-science techspeak for a particular
     class of strategies for dynamically but transparently reallocating
     computer memory (i.e., without requiring explicit allocation and
     deallocation by higher-level software). One such strategy involves
     periodically scanning all the data in memory and determining what is no
     longer accessible; useless data items are then discarded so that the
     memory they occupy can be recycled and used for another purpose.
     Implementations of the LISP language usually use garbage collection.
  
     In jargon, the full phrase is sometimes heard but the {abbrev} GC is
     more frequently used because it is shorter. Note that there is an
     ambiguity in usage that has to be resolved by context: "I'm going to
     garbage-collect my desk" usually means to clean out the drawers, but it
     could also mean to throw away or recycle the desk itself.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  GC
       
          1. {garbage collection}.
       
          2. A storage allocator with {garbage collection} by
          Hans-J. Boehm and Alan J. Demers.  Gc is a plug-in replacement
          for {C}'s {malloc}.  Since the collector does not require
          {pointers} to be tagged, it does not attempt to ensure that
          all inaccessible storage is reclaimed.
       
          Version 3.4 has been ported to {Sun-3}, {Sun-4}, {Vax}/{BSD},
          {Ultrix}, {Intel 80386}/{Unix}, {SGI}, {Alpha}/{OSF/1},
          {Sequent} (single threaded), {Encore} (single threaded),
          {RS/600}, {HP-UX}, {Sony News}, {A/UX}, {Amiga}, {NeXT}.
       
          {(ftp://parcftp.xerox.com/pub/russell/gc3.4.tar.Z)}.
       
          (2000-04-19)