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by kaba0 688 days ago
They are massively faster (as in, has better throughput) than ref counting. See my previous comment for more details.
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naasking 688 days ago
Faster than ref counting AND than manual memory management. Papers that have recorded the traces of memory allocation and liveness info and then replayed them using GC or by inserting manual new/free show GC has a throughput advantage here.
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