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Don't those systems have substantially less capabilities? In particular, swap/paging, virtual memory, multi-processor support, and low-ish latency? GC is easy
by theamk 3y ago
Don't those systems have substantially less capabilities? In particular, swap/paging, virtual memory, multi-processor support, and low-ish latency?
GC is easy if you don't have to worry about those problems.
- pjmlp 3y agoThe Xerox systems were more modern and demanding than UNIX, for their time.
- theamk 3y agoFor their time, sure. But that doesn't help with today's devices. Even $10 boards are multicore now and come with hundreds megs of RAM. At least in garbage collected OS design, the lessons from 1970's and 1980's are interesting, but do not directly apply to modern systems.