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Still not a state of the art copying collector.
by rurban 1y ago
Still not a state of the art copying collector.
- mfru 1y agoWhat would be and which language has it?
- rurban 1y agoGood collectors are language independent. Bad collectors like Mark & Sweep are just needed for stable extern pointers, like in ffi callbacks. All better languages use a modern copying collector, if they have enough memory. It's also compacting, and doesn't stop the world. I think lisps just do mark & sweep on phones or embedded, and the mentioned ffi callbacks.
- itsTyrion 1y agowhat about recent JVM GCs? Shenandoah (incl generational) and ZGC?