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Re:Why Garbage Collection Paranoia is Still (sometimes) Just... by DanielRibeiro on Sunday November 06, 2011 @05:27PM (#3204092)
Languages like Ruby, Python, Lisp and Scheme don't have good generational garbage collectors because they don't have the manpower to tackle Difficult Problems.

It seems that you confused language with implementation. For example: want a Ruby without GIL and with great garbage collector? Use JRuby (and this assumes we are comparing to the official one: YARV). One language, different implementations.

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Re:Why Garbage Collection Paranoia is Still (sometimes) Just... by gizmo on Sunday November 06, 2011 @06:18PM (#3204232)
JRuby just piggybacks on Java. That doesn't invalidate my point, as far as I can tell.
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Re:Why Garbage Collection Paranoia is Still (sometimes) Just... by DanielRibeiro on Monday November 07, 2011 @12:55AM (#3205193)
JRuby uses the JVM. Java is the language. Same point: language != implementation. Not always, but nowadays we have many mature vms, so it is more common.
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