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> GC'd languages haven't proven themselves useful for things like OSs, What about Lisp Machines?
by Curmudgel 12y ago
> GC'd languages haven't proven themselves useful for things like OSs,
What about Lisp Machines?
- lispm 12y agoLisp Machines provide ways to 'manually' manage memory for things like network stacks. If a Lisp Machine is doing a global full GC (which it wants to avoid as much as possible), then it does not react in any useful way to inputs, the network, ...