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A lot of engineering has gone into GCs over the years to avoid the need to stop the world when copying objects around, and no hardware support is needed for the
by aardvark179 3y ago
A lot of engineering has gone into GCs over the years to avoid the need to stop the world when copying objects around, and no hardware support is needed for the pointer chasing. You do need support for atomic swaps and sometimes some MMU tricks but other than that you’re good.