Garbage Collection for Systems Programmers

Tue Apr 9 17:22:02 UTC 2024

On Tuesday, 9 April 2024 at 16:45:18 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> A concurrent collector fixes this problem. Rainer implemented 
> one at one point, but there were some technical issues. It's 
> worth revisiting.

Memory protection mechanisms are expensive and also cause pauses.

> Besides, the programmer can control when then the collection 
> cycle is done.

What for?