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Re:Why is D's garbage collection slower than GO's? by zozbot234 on Saturday October 29, 2022 @10:10AM (#33384165)
> and if you need to point back to the object that owns you

That's not the interesting case; that is indeed easily addressed by "weak" pointers. What's interesting is the case of a spaghetti reference graph where none of the objects definitely "owns" any other, and even the choice of GC roots might be dynamic.

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Re:Why is D's garbage collection slower than GO's? by ninkendo on Sunday October 30, 2022 @03:54PM (#33398004)
The specific point I’m making is that the “interesting case” is rare. Rare enough that I’ve never seen it in person.
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