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Alifatisk on Dec 5, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: The D Programming Language

How come more languages doesn't implement non-halting GC?

pebal on Dec 5, 2023 [–]

The garbage collector must lock threads if it is compacting or does not create separate stacks for pointers only. All GCs for Java a lock application threads.

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