To be clear at the top, I don’t have practical or theoretical background in language/compiler/memory management design. This is not a proposal for an improvement to Julia’s garbage collection. I have one of those “isn’t the solution simple?” ideas that only a total novice could think. Why does GC n…

Object lifetime is decoupled from lexical scope in Julia. E.g., the last reference to an object might be buried in a linked list. Hence the need for garbage collection to walk the object graph. Concurrent garbage collectors are well known. e.g. Dijkstra’s tri-color collection algorithm dates back t…

Why am I wrong about GC?

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Why am I wrong about GC?

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