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Re:Why are most browsers developed in C++? by Arelius on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @03:04PM (#6136092)
> GC pauses wouldn't really be a problem if development in the past twenty five years had been focused on hardware assisted incremental garbage collection

Hardware assisted GC isn't free. It comes at a large cost of silicon* and power. And makes a lot of assumptions and puts a lot of restrictions on your GC. And it still doesn't solve the caching problems related to automatic memory management.

* The silicon has to come out of the die budget somewhere. likely decreasing performance on other operations. Or removing other special purpose instructions altogether (SIMD?)

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Re:Why are most browsers developed in C++? by cwzwarich on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @03:34PM (#6136293)
The hardware features required for hardware-assisted GC are actually pretty simple. See https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/vee05/full_papers/p46-c... for a description. Other features like hardware-assisted write barriers (simple) and transactional memory (much more complex) can be used to increase performance.
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