a highly efficient garbage collector
oscar is a conservative garbage collector for C that aims to automate and remove the malloc and free redundancy, replacing it with simpler and smarter functions. it is aimed to be highly efficient and fast, as suggested by it being named after the best Sesame Street character, oscar, and following the virtues listed in his record-breaking song, i love trash.
- reliable, and conservative design
- page-sized memory allocation
- smart and efficient memory scanning
- simple and user-friendly API
example: allocate char sized memory to elmo and then garbage collect it before exiting.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <oscar.h>
int main() {
oscarize(); // initialize oscar
char* elmo = (char*) allocate(sizeof(char));
*elmo = "f";
printf(elmo);
oscar(); // garbage collect `elmo`
return 0;
}