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29 Jul 2024 14:16:18 EDT (-0400)
  Re: A tale of two cities  
From: Warp
Date: 15 Mar 2012 10:42:41
Message: <4f61ffe1@news.povray.org>
Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> The other fun thing is that few people have built concurrent GC engines. 
> At least with manual memory management, one thread doesn't usually block 
> other threads from running.

  A concurrent compacting GC sounds to me like a very hard problem.
If the GC moves objects around in RAM, it has to make sure that no code
is modifying the object while the GC is moving it. How does it achieve
that efficiently, I have no idea.

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                                                          - Warp


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