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this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2025
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That sounds pretty great. My impression is that relatively little code actually runs that often.
That part sounds implausible, though. What kind of memory management are they doing?
Reference counting.
Oh, you just mean it's a kind of garbage collection that's lighter on pauses. Sorry, I've had the "my pre-Rust pet language already does what Rust does" conversation on here too many times.
To be fair, the drop/dealloc "pause" is very different from what people usually mean when they say "garbage collection pause", i.e. stop-the-world (...or at least a slice of the world).
Yeah, it might be better, I don't actually know. It's not as novel as OP maybe thinks it is, though.
That's fair; Python, Swift, and most Lisps all use or have previously used reference-counting. But the quoted sentence isn't wrong, since it said no "garbage collection pauses" rather than "garbage collection."
Yes, I read or interpreted that wrong at first.