Re:Garbage Collection in Ruby 2.1
by iagooar on Monday December 30, 2013 @05:50AM
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Isn't it actually kind of sad, that such important researches don't get considered until 40 or 50 years later?
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I don't think such research wasn't considered, it's been used constantly in many projects since.
The reason why some platforms have "silly" choices like stop the world M&S GC, or interpreters with AST walking is, likely, that optimization wasn't a goal in the original implementation and it's hard to retrofit it while keeping compatibility.