On Wednesday, 9 January 2013 at 09:43:01 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
The technical solution you choose for GC imply some tradeoff, and it amazing to see how the fact that you refcount or trace don't matter that much. If you want a tracing collector to behave more like reference counting, you'll need to add barriers, so you ends up with the same cost to get the same benefit.
A single 100-ms pause is not equivalent to 10,000 0.1-ms pauses for all apps.
Just because they have the "same cost" doesn't necessarily imply they're equal.
