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   Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Aug-2023 01:40:22 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

   • Christine Lemmer-Webber
   @cwebber (And malloc/free in some environments works like reference counting but counter is a boolean)
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Aug-2023 01:45:10 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • Christine Lemmer-Webber
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     @a13cui @cwebber Yup, and it just totally shatters manual vs. GC
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     chsh -s /usr/bin/pwsh $USER (a13cui@emacs.ch)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Aug-2023 01:45:11 JST chsh -s /usr/bin/pwsh $USER

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     • Christine Lemmer-Webber

     @lanodan @cwebber that's... a smart idea

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Aug-2023 03:38:26 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • Tom Forsyth
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     @TomF @a13cui @cwebber Well at the same time, in practice:
     - By default on modern systems, specially desktop ones, malloc() rarely/never returns NULL.
     - free() doesn't needs to deallocate memory right away, jemalloc explored that part quite a lot
     
     I'm not saying it's literally GC but the limits aren't as sharp as many people put them out to be.
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     Tom Forsyth (tomf@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Aug-2023 03:38:27 JST Tom Forsyth

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     • Christine Lemmer-Webber
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     @lanodan @a13cui @cwebber I'm not sure broadening the definition of GC to include manual malloc/free is particularly productive though. All you've done is redefine the words "garbage collection" so broadly that it now means nothing.