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A very naive tracing GC is not more complex either, and is absolutely in the ballpark of “college kids”.
by kaba0 4y ago
A very naive tracing GC is not more complex either, and is absolutely in the ballpark of “college kids”.
- ajross 4y agoYes, but a world-stopping mark and sweep collector is pretty much a non-starter for anything non-trivial in the modern world with full heaps well into the gigabytes. You'd be talking about multiple seconds of delay.