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Re:Ruby 2.1 Garbage Collection to Address Criticism on Large... by coldtea on Monday September 16, 2013 @09:33AM (#6393125)
>This is an absolutely ridiculous comment. Writing a GC for a dynamic language like Ruby is not just a question of knowing C and reading some literature. It's a massive problem to solve.

No it's not. There are tons of good GC's around. You can even improve Ruby's GC with 1990 technology.

(E.g did the LuaJit guy solved a "massive problem"? Mostly by himself?)

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Re:Ruby 2.1 Garbage Collection to Address Criticism on Large... by jamesaguilar on Monday September 16, 2013 @12:00PM (#6393900)
Some people routinely underestimate what a team of two or three smart guys and gals can do if they get in a room together and really work on a problem.
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Re:Ruby 2.1 Garbage Collection to Address Criticism on Large... by Tuna-Fish on Monday September 16, 2013 @01:23PM (#6394416)
GC in Lua is a fundamentally much easier problem because it doesn't do threads.

Also, "Mike Pall can do it so everyone can" is not a very good argument -- Mike Pall is fucking brilliant, and quite a lot of his code is stuff that your typical great C coder can't ever do.

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