GC Fun at Twitch

Re:GC Fun at Twitch by pjmlp on Saturday November 16, 2019 @06:05AM (#21552038)

Does it prevent stack overflows and stop-the-world delays in complex data structures?

Two common problems in most reference counting implementations.

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Re:GC Fun at Twitch by jashmatthews on Saturday November 16, 2019 @07:47AM (#21552401)

IIUC Rust stack overflows are actually checked, hit a guard page, and unwind the stack https://github.com/rust-lang/compiler-builtins/blob/master/s...

A cactusref is owned by a single thread so there's no STW issue, but you also can't share them mutably between threads like structures available in some GCed languages.

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Re:GC Fun at Twitch by pjmlp on Saturday November 16, 2019 @08:46AM (#21552587)

Thanks

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