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3 points by lark 4270 days ago | link | parent

I sometimes wonder if garbage collection in dynamic languages is necessary.


2 points by rocketnia 4270 days ago | link

Sounds like a good topic, and I'd be interested in hearing to hear your thoughts on this. I've been thinking about the same kind of thing, but I'm looking to use it in a weakly typed subset of a statically typed language. My motivation is mostly to see if we can make it convenient to externally manage the memory needs of otherwise encapsulated programs.

This is probably a discussion for another thread. ^_^;

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1 point by akkartik 4270 days ago | link

My arc variant uses ref-counting, for what it's worth: https://github.com/akkartik/wart/blob/adf058706b/010memory

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