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Garbage collection #24
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Turns out GC is way faster than RC, too. Making values not have an explicit
I'm adding this to 0.3.0. |
The GC should be controllable by the user, using a built-in global
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I'm a little worried that maybe the GC doesn't fire often enough. Not all allocations are managed by it (foreign allocations in particular are not controlled by the GC). We'll see how it is in practice. |
I'll call this closed for now; future concerns about the GC's performance or other implementation stuff can be raised in new issues. |
Some things simply cannot be collected when using reference counting, and even though GC is less predictable, that's not really something you worry about in high-level languages such as Mica.
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