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Re:Nimrod by Example by Dewie on Thursday July 17, 2014 @02:13PM (#8049178)
> Nimrod's pointers to garbage collected memory are separate from the pointers you can allocate yourself.

Does this mean that they use different heaps?

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Re:Nimrod by Example by flaviu1 on Thursday July 17, 2014 @02:48PM (#8049393)
No, they are on the same heap since the GC isn't a moving collector.
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Re:Nimrod by Example by eudox on Thursday July 17, 2014 @02:37PM (#8049324)
They probably use the same heap underneath.
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