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IshKebab • today at 7:40 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

In common use, GC refers to mark and sweep and similar systems where allocations are not freed at an easy to predict time.


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pjmlp • today at 7:53 AM

In common use, by those that never learn the theory behind their tools.

That is a tracing GC by the way.

There are also tracing GC implementations with deterministic resource management APIs, .NET and D have them for example.

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