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A comment on Treadmill garbage collector by H. Baker.

Re:Treadmill garbage collector by H. Baker by JonChesterfield on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @10:24AM (#32238690)
Anyone know of a garbage collector specialised to immutable objects?

No old objects containing pointers to new objects and no mutation while scanning hazards.

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Re:Treadmill garbage collector by H. Baker by oecumena on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @11:09AM (#32239416)
If there are no pointers from "old" to "new" objects, then there are no cycles and (compiler-assisted) reference counting will handle it.
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Re:Treadmill garbage collector by H. Baker by Joker_vD on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @10:57AM (#32239218)
Cheney's copying collector? You're gonna have huge garbage-to-live ratio with immutable objects, and this algorithm is pretty amazing for such scenarios.
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Re:Treadmill garbage collector by H. Baker by CyberDildonics on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @10:45AM (#32239015)
Why would you garbage collect something that is going to change in the first place? By definition there isn't a way to reach it any more.
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