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Re:Garbage Collection in Ruby 2.1 by rurban on Monday December 30, 2013 @09:30PM (#6988583)
Perl objects are even bigger and need one indirection per access. A perl head is 32 bytes plus 48 byte body, ie. 80byte on 64bit systems.

For my perl rewrite p2 I need one single word per object on the stack. Common Lisps usually needs two words, the class pointer and the tagged value.

I really liked the visualization of the various GC's btw. Excellent work!

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