alt Hacker NewsThe compiler part of a language is actually a piece of cake compared to designing a concurrent garbage collector.
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almostgotcaught • today at 8:51 PM
This has gotta be one of the most dunning-kruger comments on hn
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The compiler part of a language is actually a piece of cake compared to designing a concurrent garbage collector.
This has gotta be one of the most dunning-kruger comments on hn
A good enough one isn't so bad. Here's an example concurrent collector that was used with the Inferno OS:
https://github.com/inferno-os/inferno-os/blob/master/libinte...
There's lots of room to improve it, but it worked well enough to run on telephony equipment in prod.