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Luckily, building better garbage collectors is easy: ref pointers to each cons
by weeboid 6y ago
Luckily, building better garbage collectors is easy: ref pointers to each cons
- wizzwizz4 6y agoNaming things is the hardest thing to do in computer science.
- DonHopkins 6y agoHa ha! I get the reference: http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~wiseman/humor/ai-koans.html http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~wiseman/humor/ai-koans.html Moon instructs a student One day a student came to Moon and said: “I understand how to make a better garbage collector. We must keep a reference count of the pointers to each cons.” Moon patiently told the student the following story: “One day a student came to Moon and said: ‘I understand how to make a better garbage collector... [Ed. note: Pure reference-count garbage collectors have problems with circular structures that point to themselves.]
- weeboid 6y agoold heads and new alike ~~grok~~ vibe