my garbge collector still sucks (from WIKI)

1) I saw with my own eyes that tracing (mark & sweep) was bad in that it
visited all objects.
See thread:
http://www.prothon.org/pipermail/prothon-user/2004-June/002532.html

2) I studied up on garbage collection on the web and was pleased to discover
that ref-counting was no better than tracing (according to experts) but
parrot guy wished tracing didn't have to "stop the world". I was happy
because my object-locking meant I could collect continuously while the world
was running.

3) Paul argued that ref-counting had deterministic finalization and won the
argument, contradicting the experts.

4) Greg popped my bubble by successfully pointing out that I have to stop
the world also. This wiped out the favorite feature of my collector,
especially in multiple-cpu environments.

So I am back to ground zero on my GC solution. I am currently investigating
"smart" ref-count macros to make using them easier for C coders.

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Paul responded with the Pyrex for Prothon idea (see his thread).


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