Re:Show HN: A pure reference counting GC in Go
by pjmlp on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @05:37AM
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Thus making the point that in the end it always ends up being some form of tracing GC when performance matters.
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Re:Show HN: A pure reference counting GC in Go
by ckok on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @07:52AM
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Right. To make RC work like a tracing GC (performant and without failing on circular references); it's going to be a combination. That said, there are a lot of interesting ideas in this that might be quite worth it. Like the article referenced, doesn't do a full heap scan, but makes a note of what is worth looking at.