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advanced compilers
https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs6120/2023fa/
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fast conservative gc #220

Closed Pat-Lafon closed 3 years ago

Pat-Lafon commented 4 years ago

Yikes! This seemed to take longer the more time I put into it.

Discussion Questions:

  1. When might you choose conservative garbage collection over exact garbage collection?
  2. Are there other ways/metrics that garbage collectors should be analyzed for efficiency? Is the analysis in this paper conclusive?
  3. One possible implication of this work is that C/C++ could become a relatively "efficient" garbage collected language. Would this be a good idea? Why or why not?