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by nurettin 281 days ago
> There are problem domains where tracing garbage collection simply cannot be avoided.

Can you expound on that? I've been doing this for a while and haven't seen such a domain yet.
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zozbot234 281 days ago
Many problems in GOFAI are typical examples. It's no coincidence that tracing garbage collection was originally developed in connection with LISP, the standard language of GOFAI.
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nurettin 281 days ago
Really? I've implemented plenty of minimax models in the early 2000s, but the idea of using GC never came up.
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