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Re:“Essentials of Garbage Collectors” full course is now ava... by reitzensteinm on Sunday July 07, 2019 @08:56AM (#20374860)
Garbage collection algorithms are also applicable outside of in process memory management.

I wrote a copying collector against a KV store in Clojure that I ran in prod for a while, though I swapped it out for a generational mark and sweep in Java.

I'm sure somewhere, somehow, somebody has written a GC in Excel serving some kind of business need.

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Re:“Essentials of Garbage Collectors” full course is now ava... by DmitrySoshnikov on Sunday July 07, 2019 @09:24AM (#20374959)
Great point, and the example. Exactly, the GC algorithms are a high-level abstraction, which can be transferred, and applied on higher-level systems.
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