GC researchers insist on conflating GC with all of automatic memory management. The public doesn't do this and neither does the article.
> Secondly, you know what's cheaper... Not doing anything at all.
These techniques are on the level of resetting a stack pointer or calling `sbrk()`. Incorporating them doesn't produce more-advanced GC schemes, it just means you neglected to consider similar allowances for RC.
The line of contention is at traversing the object graph and pausing threads.
> Secondly, you know what's cheaper... Not doing anything at all.
These techniques are on the level of resetting a stack pointer or calling `sbrk()`. Incorporating them doesn't produce more-advanced GC schemes, it just means you neglected to consider similar allowances for RC.
The line of contention is at traversing the object graph and pausing threads.