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Re:Garbage Collection for Systems Programmers by tomp on Sunday March 31, 2024 @08:21AM (#39883607)
delaying cascading deletion us much easier to implement than a high-performance tracing GC
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Re:Garbage Collection for Systems Programmers by bluGill on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @05:05PM (#39910839)
That isn't a choice though. The high performance garbage collector is implemented by the language implementers and comes for free, while the delayed cascading deletion has to be done by the individual programmer not the language designers.
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Re:Garbage Collection for Systems Programmers by rbehrends on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @02:24AM (#39914236)
Delaying deletions can result in significant memory overhead [1].

TANSTAAFL, as they say.

[1] https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&d...

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