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Re:Toit – A Language Designed for Microcontrollers by akelly on Thursday June 09, 2022 @03:46AM (#31678600)
Yeah fair. But I think that any gc language for microcontrollers should have a couple features:

1) A compiler flag or similar optional static check that throws a warning if you have dynamic memory allocation. In scripting languages it can be easy to do accidentally

2) A way to block the gc from happening in a time critical section of code, like how you can disable interrupts

3) Some guarantee on the maximum time gc will take

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Re:Toit – A Language Designed for Microcontrollers by matt_trentini on Thursday June 09, 2022 @07:55PM (#31688427)
MicroPython provides a way to stop the GC (and an exception will be raised if memory is attempted to be allocated). This provides us with most of the control we require...
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