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Re:Removing garbage collection from the Rust language by aidenn0 on Monday June 03, 2013 @01:04PM (#5814385)
If you use a Cheney GC, how much does escape analysis help?

Everything that would be stack allocated will die in the first generation, and Cheney's algorithm is indifferent to the amount of garbage.

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Re:Removing garbage collection from the Rust language by millstone on Monday June 03, 2013 @08:47PM (#5817055)
If nothing else, more heap allocations will cause the collector to run more often.
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Re:Removing garbage collection from the Rust language by aidenn0 on Monday June 03, 2013 @08:52PM (#5817069)
Absolutely; I was just wondering if anyone knew how big of an impact this would be; all VMs I've used have tiny stacks compared to the size of the heap, so it is academic for many times I would want this.
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