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psychotik
4491 days ago
Older developers get garbage collected
5 comments
thebooktocome
4491 days ago
There's an easy solution to that problem: have two older developers take each other as references....
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angersock
4491 days ago
That's what's known as "forming a consultancy".
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noblethrasher
4491 days ago
Don't most garbage collectors use tracing?
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Ihmahr
4491 days ago
Only the younger ones...
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cwzwarich
4491 days ago
Actually, tracing GC is older than reference counting.
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pekk
4491 days ago
Only when their reference count reaches 0.
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gclaramunt
4491 days ago
young generation garbage gets collected more often :)
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chrisdevereux
4491 days ago
They do better with generational collectors
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burstmode
4491 days ago
then they cast to void()
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