I am particularly interested in the rapid and steady growth of "garbage", among rubbish, trash and junk. What does this indicate? An evolution of English?
I am particularly interested in the rapid and steady growth of "garbage", among rubbish, trash and junk. What does this indicate? An evolution of English?
AFAICT the consensus is to say that an uninitialized variable (eg. int i;) has "garbage value". I'd say it's rather a technical term than profanity.
A mindless grep. It's probably picking up the massive amount of effort that has gone into link-time garbage collection, and socket inflight garbage, and so many, many others.
Given that it started appearing in 1995, I will assume it is because of the influence of the movie Hackers in the developers of the kernel source.
The GPU access ring buffer aka GARB is expired after a set duration i.e. when garb_age exceeds the garb_age_dump value.
The band Garbage became popular around 1995. Would be interesting to look for any correlation.
Some kind Garbage Collection inside the kernel?