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Re:Scala Native by cmrdporcupine on Monday August 19, 2019 @11:26PM (#20743591)
This is interesting, and I could even see using it, though I haven't touched Scala in 10 years... but I guess I wonder what the provenance of their GC is? The JVM's has had three decades of tuning and optimization.

EDIT: I see Boehm and their own home grown. And a "none" which I can see being useful if you have short running processes.

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Re:Scala Native by densh on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @06:33AM (#20745350)
0.3 has our own variation of Immix algorithm [1] [2]. On current development snapshots we've also made it parallel and partially concurrent which is expected to bring major speedups over previous single-thread implementation on applications with medium to large-sized heaps [3].

[1] https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1375586

[2] https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2660198

[3] https://github.com/scala-native/scala-native/pull/1423

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Re:Scala Native by sjrd on Monday August 19, 2019 @11:33PM (#20743618)
The home grown GC is actually an Immix GC at the core. See the original paper at http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/speedway/DaCapo/papers/immix-...
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