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Re:Java Was Strongly Influenced by Objective-C by stcredzero on Wednesday December 26, 2012 @11:19PM (#4972318)
> you can get a lot of mileage out of using a reference counting collector as a tenured generation with a copying nursery.

Are there implementations one can play with?

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Re:Java Was Strongly Influenced by Objective-C by rayiner on Thursday December 27, 2012 @10:41AM (#4973626)
I think MMtk might have an implementation of the technique. There are some papers on it: http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~erez/Papers/AzatchiPetrankCCPE...
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