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0 pointsptman4y ago0 comments

In the language? In the implementation?

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xyproto4y ago· 2 in thread

Both. It can be paused or disabled at runtime.

But then presumably if you disable it you have to have no heap allocation at any time in your program, or manually manage buffers. I feel like that's not worth it.

xyproto4y ago

Sure. But it's not mandatory. And if it's about optimization, pausing the GC for critical regions can be useful, or just pre-allocating memory.

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