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Re:Programming R at native speed using Haskell by hadley on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @07:34AM (#10190802)
You're confusing reference counting (which is used primarily for R's copy-on-modify strategy) and its generational garbage collector.
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Re:Programming R at native speed using Haskell by jzwinck on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @10:12AM (#10191542)
In that case, does HaskellR interfere with copy-on-modify in R, for example does it increment the reference count of R objects, then try to decrement them (which R doesn't or didn't really support), leaving those objects appearing to be multiply-referenced, and therefore forcing unnecessary copies as we see in plain R?
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