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Re:Garbage collectors open a library with abandoned books by gasgiant on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @08:41AM (#16265151)
I was completely puzzled by this headline for a few seconds. I wondered why CNN would run a technical article about open libraries for GC. And what the heck do "abandoned books" have to do with anything. Context is everything.
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Re:Garbage collectors open a library with abandoned books by ManuelHeL on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @11:14AM (#16266425)
I had the exact same feeling. I initially imagined a guy finding new clues to build an open source GC library from a pile of old Java reference books.
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Re:Garbage collectors open a library with abandoned books by dvirsky on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @09:15AM (#16265407)
"Abandoned Books" - that actually sounds like a pretty clever book-keeping algorithm for a GC.
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