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Orinoco: Young Generation Garbage Collection (v8.dev)
44 points by plow-tycoon 60 days ago
4 comments
BirAdam 56 days ago
The name Orinoco makes me think of the 802.11b wireless LAN adapters of the same name. One of the few that worked in Linux.
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bestouff 56 days ago
I'm with you on this one. I think I still have that pcmcia card somewhere.
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Lerc 56 days ago
Really? It makes me think of the hunting of the snark, because my brain makes it's own style of random wikipedia link wandering.
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SoleilAbsolu 56 days ago
Makes me think of Enya's Orinoco Flow...Sail Away, Sail Away, Sail Away!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTrk4X9ACtw

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skavi 56 days ago
(2017)
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wewewedxfgdf 56 days ago
The Wombles were some sort of rodents who lived in garbage is that right?
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graemep 56 days ago
Not sure about rodents, but furry and pointy nosed, and one of them was named Orinoco (they were all named after places or similar). They did not live in garbage, they collected and reused what humans threw away.
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amelius 56 days ago
Memory is getting too expensive to have multiple heaps.
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conartist6 55 days ago
Soon computers will be too valuable a resource to waste on filthy biologicals at all
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