A. I know Julia had stop the world garbage collection (GC) and changed to
generational GC in 0.4 that is faster (I've seen 10x mentioned).
As far as I know, there are no knobs to turn (except possible to just to
turn if off..), and the GC algorithm isn't selectable (except by choosing
the olde
Different selectable GCs would be a reasonable thing to have – it's unclear
whether a single GC strategy can be sufficiently good to satisfy all
possible requirements. That being said, the eventual standard Julia GC
ought to be good enough for most use cases. I also dislike having too many
knobs to
Just to throw this out there…
A number of years ago Mike Pall (creator and former maintainer of LuaJIT)
outlined the beginnings of what seemed (to me at least) to be a very
interesting variation on the tricolor GC:
http://wiki.luajit.org/New-Garbage-Collector . Originally this was intended for
Yeah, I remember reading through that when he published it. Worth having
another look at...
On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 6:59 AM, Joshua Ballanco wrote:
> Just to throw this out there…
>
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> A number of years ago Mike Pall (creator and former maintainer of LuaJIT)
> outlined the beginnings of what se
