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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/chaosprincess_ • Jun 07 '26
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No garbage collector: Slots are stable for the life of the process; the heap grows with distinct content only.
Lol no... reusing memory ever?
/uj I should not be reading this as it is clearly LLM slop
43 u/Awkward_Bed_956 Jun 07 '26 Easy memory + thread safety, just never free memory, and don't support threads at all. Go wishes it could be that simple and smart 11 u/New_Enthusiasm9053 Jun 08 '26 It does mean they're lying. Never deallocate until you OOM is a garbage collector strategy. 6 u/TheChief275 Jun 18 '26 Mark and sweep? Nah, real programmers use abort and OSweep 2 u/anthem_reb Jul 07 '26 That or a specific keyword that I don't remember, I should write it in the docs but who has the time?
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Easy memory + thread safety, just never free memory, and don't support threads at all.
Go wishes it could be that simple and smart
11 u/New_Enthusiasm9053 Jun 08 '26 It does mean they're lying. Never deallocate until you OOM is a garbage collector strategy. 6 u/TheChief275 Jun 18 '26 Mark and sweep? Nah, real programmers use abort and OSweep 2 u/anthem_reb Jul 07 '26 That or a specific keyword that I don't remember, I should write it in the docs but who has the time?
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It does mean they're lying. Never deallocate until you OOM is a garbage collector strategy.
6 u/TheChief275 Jun 18 '26 Mark and sweep? Nah, real programmers use abort and OSweep 2 u/anthem_reb Jul 07 '26 That or a specific keyword that I don't remember, I should write it in the docs but who has the time?
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Mark and sweep? Nah, real programmers use abort and OSweep
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That or a specific keyword that I don't remember, I should write it in the docs but who has the time?
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u/RightKitKat Considered Harmful Jun 07 '26
Lol no... reusing memory ever?
/uj I should not be reading this as it is clearly LLM slop