Re: GC: what is better, reuse or avoid cloning?

[Branden]

Dan Sugalski wrote:
> ...
> doing software copy-on-write stuff, along with having to make the garbage
> collector smart enough to deal with multiple PMCs pointing to identical
memory.

???

I thought that was the big deal of GC! Dealing with many references to the
same thing and free the thing when there's none more...

- Branden