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Re:Baby's First Garbage Collector by Scaevolus on Sunday December 08, 2013 @05:24PM (#6871721)
You can have a GC without compaction.

Go has a GC and pointers, including internal pointers (e.g. to a field of a struct). Its GC started out fully conservative, then precise for the heap and conservative for the stack, and future versions will be fully precise.

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