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bickfordb
on March 24, 2012
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Why You Should Be Excited About Garbage Collection...
Java and Haskell (GHC) have pretty good single thread performance and do not have a GIL.
ootachi
on March 24, 2012
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And they both had to spend a lot of effort to get concurrent GC to work efficiently. The biggest downside of concurrent GC is that you need read barriers, not just write barriers as in single-threaded incremental garbage collection.
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