Re:For Better Computing, Liberate CPUs from Garbage Collection
by chrisseaton on Thursday May 09, 2019 @08:15AM
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> Only recently in hacker news have they become all merged
This is demonstrably not true. The Garbage Collection book by Jones is the key text in this area, and it covers reference counting under that term. It was published in 1996, before Hacker News existed.
There is also Bacon's Unified Theory of Garbage Collection, 2004, which said the two are on a spectrum that meets in the middle.
> all high-performance collectors (for example, deferred reference counting and generational collection) are in fact hybrids of tracing and reference counting
This is demonstrably not true. The Garbage Collection book by Jones is the key text in this area, and it covers reference counting under that term. It was published in 1996, before Hacker News existed.
There is also Bacon's Unified Theory of Garbage Collection, 2004, which said the two are on a spectrum that meets in the middle.
> all high-performance collectors (for example, deferred reference counting and generational collection) are in fact hybrids of tracing and reference counting