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Do any languages actually do this? Do any languages somehow use their GC to update references when a growable array is reallocated? I'm not aware of any langua
by winstonewert 7y ago
Do any languages actually do this?
Do any languages somehow use their GC to update references when a growable array is reallocated? I'm not aware of any language that does.
Furthermore, its hard to see how it could. In the case of a simple copying/compacting collector the whole world is stopped and the pointer graph traced. But you obviously can't do that every time a growable array needs to be reallocated. I understand that there are more complex solutions that avoid that pause, but still not any I'm aware of that would be exploitable for reallocating an array.