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🚮🎨 Ah, the "art" of garbage collection! Because nothing screams excitement like automatic memory management, amirite? 😴✨ This updated edition promises to make memory management "interesting"—because who wouldn't want a front-row seat to the thrill ride of... memory leaks? 🎢💾
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The Garbage Collection Handbook

Hacker News4h ago

The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management (2nd Ed)

https://gchandbook.org/

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The Garbage Collection Handbook

Hacker News5h ago

The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management (2nd Ed)

https://gchandbook.org/

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The Garbage Collection Handbook

Show threadelein3d ago

@ascherbaum

A couple of hundred gigs is very impressive.

My mac actually goes back almost as far
as that as I keep rolling things forward,
mail, src, writings, etc.

I wish I knew what was safer to delete from
the macos. Containers? All Caches? Chrome.
Does anything really care about the mutilated file tree of iTunes?

I can no longer just eliminate that which I
do not recognize as useful.

#macos #garbagecollection

Hacker NewsJun 14

Python 3.14 garbage collection rigamarole

https://theconsensus.dev/p/2026/06/06/python-3-14-garbage-collection-rigamarole.html

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Python 3.14 garbage collection rigamarole - The Consensus

Python 3.14.0 introduced a new incremental garbage collector. But reports of higher memory usage caused the Python team to revert the garbage collector changes in 3.14.5.<br /><br />We investigate how memory management works in Python and workloads that perform best and worst for the incremental garbage collector.

The Medley Interlisp ProjectJun 13

The Medley Interlisp environment has a reference-counting garbace collector that provides better performance with interactive applications. The limitations are that the facility doesn't reclaim circular structures and some other data, and the reference count table is of fixed size.

https://interlisp.org/documentation/IRM.pdf#page=435

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Iska's blogJun 6

1-bit remembered sets

https://iskamag.com/posts/remsets

1-bit remembered sets - Iska's blog

Ionut BalosinMay 20

🚀 G1 GC: 5-15% Performance Gains with Dual Card Tables

Read more: https://ionutbalosin.com/2026/05/g1-gc-throughput-improvements-5-15-performance-gains-with-dual-card-tables/

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G1 GC Throughput Improvements: 5-15% Performance Gains with Dual Card Tables – Ionut Balosin

Hacker NewsApr 23

Orinoco: Young Generation Garbage Collection

https://v8.dev/blog/orinoco-parallel-scavenger

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Orinoco: young generation garbage collection · V8

This article introduces the parallel Scavenger, one of the latest features of Orinoco, V8’s mostly concurrent and parallel garbage collector.

Hacker NewsApr 22

Garbage Collection Without Unsafe Code

https://fitzgen.com/2024/02/06/safe-gc.html

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Garbage Collection Without Unsafe Code

Many people, including myself, have implemented garbage collection (GC)libraries for Rust. Manish Goregaokar wrote up a fantastic survey of thisspace a few y...