On Tuesday, 4 February 2014 at 02:05:07 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
On 2/3/2014 4:13 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
I've seen real-life
examples of ARCs gone horribly, horribly wrong, whereas had a GC been used in the first place things wouldn't have gone down that route.


I'm curious to hear more about this.

An example is when you have a huge graph and the root reaches it count == 0.

The time taken into a cascading deletes of the whole structure is similar to a stop-the-world GC pause.


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Paulo

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