Timeline for How does garbage collection work in languages which are natively compiled?
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| Jun 19, 2017 at 3:25 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSoftEng/status/876642128088190976 | ||
| Jun 17, 2017 at 15:51 | history | protected | gnat | ||
| Jun 17, 2017 at 13:36 | answer | added | Paul Johnson | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jun 16, 2017 at 12:06 | comment | added | Dmitry Grigoryev | GC is a feature of dynamic memory, not a feature of the interpreter. | |
| Jun 15, 2017 at 17:17 | comment | added | Eric Lippert | The operation of a garbage collector depends upon the characteristics of the allocator, not the compilation model. The allocator knows every object that has been allocated; it allocated them. Now all you need is some way of knowing which objects are still alive, and the collector can deallocate all objects except them. Nothing in that description has anything to do with the compilation model. | |
| Jun 15, 2017 at 15:20 | history | edited | Chris | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 15, 2017 at 2:22 | history | edited | Chris | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 14, 2017 at 20:51 | comment | added | Barmar |
You can consider the garbage collector to be part of the runtime library that implements the language's equivalent to malloc().
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| Jun 14, 2017 at 20:22 | answer | added | maaartinus | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jun 14, 2017 at 19:42 | vote | accept | Chris | ||
| Jun 14, 2017 at 19:17 | comment | added | Theodoros Chatzigiannakis | If you accept the fact that the GC is basically part of a library required by a particular programming language implementation, then the gist of your question has nothing to do with GC per se and everything to do with static versus dynamic linking. | |
| Jun 14, 2017 at 15:04 | comment | added | gnat | this answer suggests that some may feel the question is too broad: "An entire book is needed to answer." | |
| Jun 14, 2017 at 14:11 | comment | added | Chris | I'd appreciate it if the close voter of this question could state exactly what is wrong so I could fix it? | |
| Jun 14, 2017 at 13:22 | answer | added | Basile Starynkevitch | timeline score: 23 | |
| Jun 14, 2017 at 10:53 | answer | added | avdgrinten | timeline score: 57 | |
| Jun 14, 2017 at 10:52 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jun 14, 2017 at 10:43 | answer | added | Konrad Rudolph | timeline score: 60 | |
| Jun 14, 2017 at 6:54 | answer | added | Kilian Foth | timeline score: 125 | |
| Jun 14, 2017 at 6:47 | history | edited | Kilian Foth | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 14, 2017 at 6:43 | history | asked | Chris | CC BY-SA 3.0 |