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Re:Garbage collection via pneumatic tubes by rucikir on Friday October 02, 2020 @02:46PM (#24665726)
I don't understand how pneumatic tubes may be used to reclaim memory.
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Re:Garbage collection via pneumatic tubes by geocar on Saturday October 03, 2020 @04:59AM (#24670629)
Baker can lay the groundwork for you:

https://web.archive.org/web/20171207154321/http://www.pipeli...

Once you have a basic grasp of how to use thermodynamic statistical analysis to understand memory pressure (and other compute pressures), you can probably see how tubes could be helpful here.

:)

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Re:Garbage collection via pneumatic tubes by CGamesPlay on Saturday October 03, 2020 @04:48AM (#24670591)
Garbage collection is not a big truck. It's a series of tubes!
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Re:Garbage collection via pneumatic tubes by fizixer on Saturday October 03, 2020 @08:14AM (#24671452)
'pneumatic tubes' here refers to an algorithm developed by BigTech(TM), with the paper on PTA (pneumatic tubes algorithm) coming out any minute now.
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Re:Garbage collection via pneumatic tubes by ckw on Saturday October 03, 2020 @04:48AM (#24670587)
When the memory needs to be disposed of you drop it in the tube.
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Re:Garbage collection via pneumatic tubes by alsobrsp on Saturday October 03, 2020 @06:24AM (#24671006)
> I don't understand how pneumatic tubes may be used to reclaim memory.

Yep, I thought the same thing when I read the title.

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