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wavemodetoday at 1:47 PM2 repliesview on HN

> No garbage collector

> Slots are stable for the life of the process; the heap grows with distinct content only.

So how is a program supposed to handle lots of unique content? Like a web server handling user requests?


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skrebbeltoday at 2:18 PM

I apologize, you’re absolutely right!

Retr0idtoday at 3:09 PM

Taking it at face value, you'd spawn a subprocess to handle each web request and exit once it's done.