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Re:Announcing Rust 1.0 Alpha by legulere on Friday January 09, 2015 @04:59PM (#8864780)
Wasn't garbage collection actually always just planned but never realized (other than reference counting)?
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Re:Announcing Rust 1.0 Alpha by eslaught on Saturday January 10, 2015 @12:37PM (#8867275)
Yes, I worked on GC as a summer project. Turned out to be way harder than anyone had thought because LLVM isn't really set up to handle high performance GC. I have a talk on it here:

https://elliottslaughter.com/2012/09/rust-precise-gc/

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Re:Announcing Rust 1.0 Alpha by steveklabnik on Friday January 09, 2015 @05:34PM (#8864925)
Sort of, yeah. Gc<T> was just refcount + simple cycle detection.
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