Building a Copying GC for the Plush Programming Language(pointersgonewild.com)

31 pointsby ibobevhace 7 meses3 comments

Building a Copying GC for the Plush Programming Language

https://pointersgonewild.com/2025-11-29-building-a-copying-gc-for-the-plush-programming-language/

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You can make your communication more professional by spelling out initialisms the first time you use them and then following them with the initialism in brackets. Like this: garbage collector (GC). After that, you may use the initialism freely.

Sincerely, your bad initialism GC.

trashburgerhace 7 meses

For the GC it sounds like they don’t have generations which means copying long-lived objects needlessly due to the generational hypothesis. Interesting idea with the mailbox allocator, but how do these two allocators interact? Is the heap non-regional, or are they allocating into separate regions?

rurbanhace 7 meses

But they only collect tiny actors spaces, no big consecutive heaps as usual. Anyway, you can always add a minor collection later, and benchmark it. She didn't write it, a friend did.