GC incurs some overhead. It’d be nice if we don’t have to GC everything. In some cases, we can detect exactly when the memory needs to be freed at compile time. If so, would it be a good idea? Julia is a language that wants to have a cake and eat it too.

Borrow checker with GC fallback?

mkitti March 19, 2024, 2:20pm 4

See the example I gave here:

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