Memory Management with Stephen Dolan
Signals and Threads
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The Generational Collector
The idea that you might need to scan your entire heap periodically is just really destructive to having any kind of predictable latency. Even a program that doesn't have any soft field time constraint, anything even vaguely interactive, will be unhappy, if it just stops for a second or two. There's an observation that's, it's very old, the original paper, that's bot the thing called the generational hypothesis. It's one of the few that's beene well confirmed across a huge range of completely different programming languages. The ones tht you've just allicated are likely to go away soon.
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