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Re:Chris Lattner on garbage collection vs. Automatic Referen... by tomp on Sunday April 24, 2022 @02:36AM (#31141786)
Can you link to some resources/papers detailing how to solve this problem? I’m only aware of “RC+GC” solution (i.e. adding a full tracing GC in addition to RC to find and collect cycles).
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Re:Chris Lattner on garbage collection vs. Automatic Referen... by hayley-patton on Sunday April 24, 2022 @03:33AM (#31142006)
David F. Bacon and V. T. Rajan, Concurrent Cycle Collection in Reference Counted Systems

https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/hosking/690M/Bacon01Concurre...

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Re:Chris Lattner on garbage collection vs. Automatic Referen... by cmrdporcupine on Sunday April 24, 2022 @08:57AM (#31143511)
That's the one I was thinking of, and I once implemented that one myself in C++ back in, uh, 2001, 2002, during a bout of unemployment in the .com crash.

I guess I just assumed that there's been some advancement in the world since then.

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