The Treadmill collector was designed for realtime contexts (https://www.cofault.com/2022/07/treadmill.html https://www.cofault.com/2022/07/treadmill.html is a v

The Treadmill collector was designed for realtime contexts (https://www.cofault.com/2022/07/treadmill.html https://www.cofault.com/2022/07/treadmill.html is a very good explanation for it and how it works, but the paper itself is also very readable). Really any incremental GC can be used in a realtime context though, where you visit objects until you hit some time budget and then resume your interpreter.