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This is a common practice in GC. For example, the JVM already does this by default, and you don't need to give it immutable data.
by cynicalkane 13y ago
This is a common practice in GC. For example, the JVM already does this by default, and you don't need to give it immutable data.
- reitzensteinm 13y agoBut immutability makes it conceptually a hell of lot cleaner, and feasible to do even if you're investing orders of magnitude less in your GC than went into the JVM. Which is important if Clojure gets ported to bare metal runtimes, as the parent was suggesting.