Beeflang garbage seeker/collector

[Daniel N]

On Friday, 23 February 2024 at 11:37:22 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
> On Tuesday, 20 February 2024 at 16:40:28 UTC, Marconi wrote:
>> In beeflang garbage collector (garbage seeker) do not clean 
>> the memory, it only works in debug mode to help the programmer 
>> find and fix memory leaks, double frees, etc. In release mode, 
>> the program runs in full speed since there is no garbage 
>> collector. I think this is the best approach about memory 
>> management.
>
> Sounds peculiar. As far as I understand it's a way to verify if 
> manual management is mastered. However, for a language that 
> proposes manual management and on linux I'd just use valgrind. 
> It's a useful tool when debug infos are also generated.

I think it sounds like a clever solution, wish them the best of 
luck. valgrind has enormous overhead, much more than normal GCs. 
(Even ASAN has fairly large overhead.)