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Re:Modern garbage collection: Part 2 by saagarjha on Saturday December 14, 2019 @06:18PM (#21793073)
> circular references

You can solve this with weak references.

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Re:Modern garbage collection: Part 2 by LessDmesg on Sunday December 15, 2019 @03:27AM (#21795145)
...which is manual work with no guarantees of correctness.
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Re:Modern garbage collection: Part 2 by ncmncm on Monday December 16, 2019 @12:00AM (#21800911)
But never, in practice, needed, so any downside is only theoretical.
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