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by ghusbands 296 days ago
> garbage collection, I just link the Boehm GC. Not ideal, but good enough

It's worth noting that on 32-bit, the Boehm GC can have consistent issues [1] [2] [3] that make it worth avoiding for anything long-running. The Mono team implemented their own GC due to this. If a runtime is aiming to be useful on such systems, it may be worth implementing or using a less conservative GC.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_%28software%29#Garbage_co...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3576396

[3] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8152374/