[Off-Topic] John Carmack's point of view on GC and languages like JavaScript

[rikki cattermole]

On 09/08/2022 10:32 AM, Ethan wrote:
>> there is a fork based GC available
> 
> Can we stop talking about this please? It's a technological dead end, 
> unusable on a large number of computers and mobile devices. If that's 
> the best we've got, it's really not good enough.

I double checked this (even though we previously discussed it an I 
believed you), but processsnapshot.h which is required to do concurrent 
GC's for Windows is not available for Xbox.

So yeah, concurrrent GC's are out on Xbox.

Need write barriers if you want a better GC.