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Lazy sweep, not just lazy free() #1440

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andychu opened this issue Jan 5, 2023 · 0 comments

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andychu commented Jan 5, 2023 •

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This gives the "proper" big-O improvement to O(num live objects), not just O(num allocated objects)

https://oilshell.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/121539-oil-dev/topic/TODO.20on.20core.20GC/near/319627427

And note lazy free() was actually pretty significant on the benchmarks

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