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   pinskia (pinskia@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 05:36:08 JST pinskia

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   • mvu

   @neia @mvu No GCC uses a GC. It is a simple mark and sweep. It uses a secondary simple program to parse C/C++ headers to create the mark functions automatically.
   there are also some uses of obstack in GCC for things like bitmaps inside a pass and strings. And normal dynamic memory allocation (with malloc/new and free/delete) too inside GCC.

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     Neia (neia@fedi.ikeran.org)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 05:36:09 JST Neia

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     • mvu

     @mvu@peoplemaking.games I believe GCC uses this strategy for memory management. Everything gets freed when the program exits, which should be good enough, right?

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     mvu (mvu@peoplemaking.games)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 05:36:10 JST mvu

     For #goblinweek someone should make a new programming language: goblang.

     It should be a scripting language with no garbage collection, but no other memory management solution either -- the garbage just piles up until your computer crashes.