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I don't understand how pneumatic tubes may be used to reclaim memory.

• ckw 6y ago
  When the memory needs to be disposed of you drop it in the tube.
• CGamesPlay 6y ago
  Garbage collection is not a big truck. It's a series of tubes!
• geocar 6y ago
  Baker can lay the groundwork for you: https://web.archive.org/web/20171207154321/http://www.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/ThermoGC.html https://web.archive.org/web/20171207154321/http://www.pipeli... Once you have a basic grasp of how to use thermodynamic statistical analysis to understand memory pressure (and other compute pressures), you can probably see how tubes could be helpful here. :)
• alsobrsp 6y ago
  > I don't understand how pneumatic tubes may be used to reclaim memory. Yep, I thought the same thing when I read the title.
• fizixer 6y ago
  'pneumatic tubes' here refers to an algorithm developed by BigTech(TM), with the paper on PTA (pneumatic tubes algorithm) coming out any minute now.