Yeah. The problem here is that Julia gives you a bunch of tools to avoid GC by aggressively stack allocating or preallocating so our GC algorithm is pretty meh.

Yeah. The problem here is that Julia gives you a bunch of tools to avoid GC by aggressively stack allocating or preallocating so our GC algorithm is pretty meh. We're about to merge a parallel algorithm, and are looking into switching to MMTK, but if anyone from the Java/lisp/Go world wants to help us out, we would love people who can help improve our GC. There are a few things Julia does that makes it a bit harder (the stack allocation+LLVM makes getting roots a little more complicated, and we make it easy for C to take Julia memory so we can't do a compacting collector).