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Re:Treadmill garbage collector by H. Baker by gumby on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @05:33PM (#32244358)
It's pretty hard to beat the pushj/popj approach, except that you have to lock out the GC before returning (as it may be scanning the activation records to find roots).
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Re:Treadmill garbage collector by H. Baker by kragen on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @08:23PM (#32245643)
Yeah, whatever Appel thinks, the stack is always faster. But sometimes the heap penalty is affordable. Before generational GC it was ridiculous.
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