Garbage Collection for Systems Programmers

[Paulo Pinto]

On Sunday, 7 April 2024 at 09:44:21 UTC, ryuukk_ wrote:
> On Saturday, 6 April 2024 at 19:09:12 UTC, Sebastian Nibisz 
> wrote:
>> On Saturday, 6 April 2024 at 16:49:44 UTC, Richard (Rikki) 
>> Andrew Cattermole wrote:
>>> Modern GC's tend to need write barriers to make them work.
>>
>> Write barrier can be as cheap as a single atomic write.
>
> Again, asking to become even worse than Java
>
> Java's latest new concurrent GC doesn't need write barriers
>
> Rust is the best evidence that nobody wants a system language 
> with a GC, only Microsoft do, and they has lost

Swift is a systems language with a GC, and before you mention RC 
isn't, I suggest reading proper CS material on automatic memory 
management research, and not random blog posts on the matter.