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Building a Copying GC for the Plush Programming Language

22 pointsby ibobevlast Monday at 1:48 AM2 commentsview on HN

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Bad_Initialismtoday at 10:38 PM

You can make your communication more professional by spelling out initialisms the first time you use them and then following them with the initialism in brackets. Like this: garbage collector (GC). After that, you may use the initialism freely.

Sincerely, your bad initialism GC.

trashburgertoday at 8:51 PM

For the GC it sounds like they don’t have generations which means copying long-lived objects needlessly due to the generational hypothesis. Interesting idea with the mailbox allocator, but how do these two allocators interact? Is the heap non-regional, or are they allocating into separate regions?