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by ScottBurson 3256 days ago
> Functional collections may work well with a state of the art GC, with Julia's not so much.

I don't know the specifics of Julia's GC, but this seems a strange thing to say in 2017. Douglas Crosher's conservative generational collector for CMUCL (also used in SBCL AFAIK) supports C interoperation and is entirely adequate for handling the extra garbage that (admittedly) is generated when using functional collections. I don't recall exactly when he wrote that collector, but it must have been 20 years ago at least. It would be strange if Julia weren't using something at least as sophisticated.