gc design 101

Submitted by no_defun_allowed in church_of_alonzo_church

  • SBCL not on x86: 6 generation generational copying gc, gg ez no re
  • SBCL on x86: "gencgc" is a six letter horror story
  • ML: world's highest infant mortality, 98% every 10kb of allocation
  • Haskell: haskell curry murdered 100 gorillion temporary values with his bare hands
  • C: oh just use the boehm conservativSegmentation fault, core dumped fuck did i do pointer arithmetic
  • C++: reference counting and useless compiler
  • Rust: rEfErEnCe CoUnTiNg and really rude compiler
  • Go: our advanced Java competitor has a non-generational non-moving GC cause fuck you cause C interoperability and realtime and stuff
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no_defun_allowed OP wrote

bonus skit from #lispcafe:

i'm going to create the world's first conservative copying collector
Will it rage about how it works hard collecting garbage while immigrants collect welfare?

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