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Re:Does the Bronze Garbage Collector Make Rust Easier to Use? by bjourne on Thursday December 23, 2021 @11:24AM (#29663368)
Performance of ref-counting is proportional to the size of the dead objects. Performance of tracing gc is proportional to the size of the alive objects. In other words, there are many real-world situations in which ref-counting pauses are much longer than tracing gc pauses.
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