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Introducing Riptide: WebKit's Retreating Wavefront Concurrent Garbage Collector
The new Riptide garbage collector in WebKit leads to a five-fold improvement in latency in the JetStream/splay-latency test.
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- 216
- HN comments
- 43
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- 8 commenters
Web & FrontendSystems & Performance2017
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 20, 2017 | Introducing Riptide: WebKit's Retreating Wavefront Concurrent Garbage Collector by pizlonator | 216 | 43 |
Cited in comments
Linked from 8 Hacker News comments by 8 different people, from Jan 2017 to Jan 2026.
Most recent:
- jitl · Jan 19, 2026
- pizlonator · Nov 24, 2025
- chc4 · Jul 26, 2022
- jashmatthews · Jan 31, 2020
- pcwalton · Oct 5, 2018
- mbudde · Sep 14, 2017
