Memory allocation for the curious

Re:Memory allocation for the curious by karlkloppenborg on Sunday September 17, 2017 @06:09PM (#15271966)

Pretty cool blog post, I'd like to see a followup which discusses garbage collection, dealloc, release. et-all.

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Re:Memory allocation for the curious by oso2k on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @12:34AM (#15281809)

Skeeto/Chris Wellons [0] did a great write up on a basic Reference Counting Garbage Collector. I've done an initial translation [1][2] into a reusable library. Bob Nystrom also wrote a great tutorial on implementing a basic GC for a simple dynamic language [3].

[0] http://nullprogram.com/blog/2015/02/17/

[1] https://github.com/lpsantil/vgc/blob/master/original/t/t0000...

[2] https://github.com/lpsantil/vgc/blob/master/original/include...

[3] http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/12/08/babys-first-gar...

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