>>>>> "Randal" == Randal L Schwartz <[email protected]> writes:

Randal> Parrot's GC suffers from having many different kinds of mixed objects.

Randal> http://wknight8111.blogspot.com/2010/01/boehm-in-parrot.html

And worse, having untyped data blobs on a stack... that's probably the worst
thing there.

If you can't tell what live pointers you have for sure, you can't GC, and if
you can't GC reliably, you lose.

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