As I said in another thread recently, garbage collectors don't have to be of the stop-the-world, non-deterministic kind. It's perfectly possible to have real-ti

As I said in another thread recently, garbage collectors don't have to be of the stop-the-world, non-deterministic kind. It's perfectly possible to have real-time garbage collection [1], and the language I commonly work with supports soft real-time use with the default GC [2]. I'm no expert on garbage collection techniques, but what I have picked up is that most of the challenge lies in timing of the collections (when to run the GC) and how to deal with things like cycles. [1] http://michaelrbernste.in/2013/06/03/real-time-garbage-collection-is-real.html http://michaelrbernste.in/2013/06/03/real-time-garbage-colle... [2] http://nim-lang.org/docs/gc.html http://nim-lang.org/docs/gc.html