Garbage Collection in Ruby 2.1

Re:Garbage Collection in Ruby 2.1 by oleganza on Monday December 30, 2013 @05:39AM (#6984025)

I think Henry Baker had a paper on why generational and refcounting GCs are ultimately equivalent. Couldn't find it quickly, though, to give you a link.

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Re:Garbage Collection in Ruby 2.1 by hencq on Monday December 30, 2013 @06:12AM (#6984106)

I think you might be thinking of this paper: A unified theory of garbage collection [1], which shows how most modern collectors are hybrids of GC and ref counting.

[1] http://atlas.cs.virginia.edu/~weimer/2008-415/reading/bacon-...

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Re:Garbage Collection in Ruby 2.1 by brandonbloom on Monday December 30, 2013 @11:19AM (#6985174)

For the record: This is a very good paper. It's extremely easy to read, even for somebody who knows nothing about the background, and the scientific result is absolutely beautiful!

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Re:Garbage Collection in Ruby 2.1 by kirubakaran on Monday December 30, 2013 @01:12PM (#6985892)

I just wanted to say thank you for this comment. I'm reading the paper because of it. Can you please point me to your other favorites that are good + accessible?

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Re:Garbage Collection in Ruby 2.1 by brandonbloom on Monday December 30, 2013 @03:01PM (#6986539)

I wouldn't even know where to start :-)

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Re:Garbage Collection in Ruby 2.1 by kirubakaran on Tuesday December 31, 2013 @12:21PM (#6991559)

Haha you aren't getting off that easy. Could you please tell me, say, 3 that come to your mind?

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Re:Garbage Collection in Ruby 2.1 by oleganza on Monday December 30, 2013 @09:41AM (#6984764)

Oh, it was David Bacon. Thanks for finding this link.

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