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A comment on Visualizing Garbage Collection Algorithms (2014).

Re:Visualizing Garbage Collection Algorithms (2014) by pmarreck on Monday March 20, 2017 @09:58AM (#13914239)
After hearing about GC for well over 20 years now, I would have thought it would have been a Solved Problem(tm) by now! It's clearly a situation where every conceivable solution seems to have tradeoffs.

Interesting post, although I had to force-reload the page to get the animations to restart...

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Re:Visualizing Garbage Collection Algorithms (2014) by gumby on Monday March 20, 2017 @10:11AM (#13914349)
20 years? John McCarthy proposed and implemented it in Lisp in 1960!
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Re:Visualizing Garbage Collection Algorithms (2014) by pjmlp on Monday March 20, 2017 @12:59PM (#13915738)
Automatic memory management is a solved problem from technical point of view, it just needs a few generations to convince all luddites.
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