[specification] Garbage Collector

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[specification] Garbage Collector #180

Closed mrodz closed 7 months ago

mrodz commented 9 months ago

Implement a Garbage Collector to clean up circular references.

mrodz commented 9 months ago

Check out these crates:

https://crates.io/crates/gc (not Arc) << this looks most promising
https://crates.io/crates/cgc (Arc but low level)
https://crates.io/crates/pgc (Arc but tedious)

mrodz commented 7 months ago

Circular references are also a problem at compilation and will leak memory in some cases. Usually it's when a class has an Rc property and a field that references the class.

Also, reworking mutability and lifetimes with a garbage collected object may prove troublesome.