Re:Why Android should switch to Go
by stcredzero on Wednesday May 16, 2012 @10:28AM
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Incremental cycle collection is quite hard
Incremental GC has been done. It wouldn't be super efficient, which is why one would encourage the pros to use weak references.
For mobile I would just use an incremental garbage collector with heavy usage of stack allocation and interior objects. Or use a reference-counted system and disable the GC entirely (leaking cycles).