On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Sandro Magi <[email protected]>wrote:
> Indeed. The long-known duality between tracing and ref counting is obvious > when you think of it this way: tracing is worst-case linear in the size of > the heap on allocation, ref counting is worst-case linear in the size of > the heap on destruction. It seems clear then that some hybrid is needed to > eliminate the worst cases of both. That, or maybe some way for the programmer to tip off the collector about some of these batching relationships. Or maybe some combination.
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