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by cracauer 2386 days ago
If you are interested in optimizing generational GC with operating system facilities:

https://medium.com/@MartinCracauer/generational-garbage-coll...

And a review of LLVM's GC facilities: https://medium.com/@MartinCracauer/llvms-garbage-collection-...

Overall message is that there are many different ways to get to the destination, and creative solutions are mixed in.

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Do you know if llvm got good at garbage collection support recently? My understanding was always that their optimisations would mangle your stack/registers so much that a decent incremental exact GC becomes super hard. And that something like keeping one/two pointers to the tip of the heap in dedicated registers is super hard/annoying too.
I don't have anything new. I might have to re-write a GC for Clasp. Then I know :)

A better questions would be whether anybody has a moving, precise GC running on LLVM. Clasp with MPS runs, but that might be coincidence/luck.