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Re:Building a lower-latency GC by benjiweber on Saturday April 11, 2015 @09:19AM (#9359337)
Perhaps we could have some sort of virtual machine, which could allow different languages that target it to share garbage collection solutions? ¬_¬
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Re:Building a lower-latency GC by amelius on Saturday April 11, 2015 @09:48AM (#9359412)
I was thinking of a solution that is a little more orthogonal (modular). The JVM for example, is overdesigned for this purpose. One problem it has, is that it doesn't support proper tail call optimizations, and this affects most functional languages targeting this virtual machine. The GC of this VM, however, would be perfectly suitable for these languages.
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