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Re:Perceus: Garbage Free Reference Counting with Reuse [pdf] by studius on Saturday December 19, 2020 @12:43PM (#25479281)
I supposed you could construct as dynamic and then make it constant? I wonder why that feature isn't seen in common languages, even though I know it sounds crazy.
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Re:Perceus: Garbage Free Reference Counting with Reuse [pdf] by vnorilo on Saturday December 19, 2020 @01:28PM (#25479752)
Clojure has transient mutable collections that are designed to become persistent once "complete". [1] Some systems have made use of using reference count of one (unique owner) as permission to mutate, something that TFA generalizes as memory reuse.

1: https://clojure.org/reference/transients

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