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Wasn't garbage collection actually always just planned but never realized (other than reference counting)?
by legulere 12y ago
Wasn't garbage collection actually always just planned but never realized (other than reference counting)?
- steveklabnik 12y agoSort of, yeah. Gc<T> was just refcount + simple cycle detection.
- eslaught 12y agoYes, I worked on GC as a summer project. Turned out to be way harder than anyone had thought because LLVM isn't really set up to handle high performance GC. I have a talk on it here: https://elliottslaughter.com/2012/09/rust-precise-gc/ https://elliottslaughter.com/2012/09/rust-precise-gc/