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Writing a Simple Garbage Collector in C (2014)
People seem to think that writing a garbage collector is really hard, a deep magic understood by a few great sages and Hans Boehm (et al) . Well it’s not. In fact, it’s rather straight forward. I claim that the hardest part in writing a GC is writing the memory allocator, which is as hard to write as it is to look up…
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| Apr 8, 2023 | Writing a Simple Garbage Collector in C (2014) by susam | 190 | 32 |
| Dec 15, 2019 | Writing a Simple Garbage Collector in C by mbroncano | 142 | 23 |