Andy WingoMar 19
flavor of devrel which is just an endless sequence of telling people your system is fast because of optimized manual memory management and telling them the same because of an optimized garbage collector
Show threadAndrew Kelley

@wingo in zig compiler we have a half dozen datasets for which the memory management strategy is "garbage collection" but the garbage collection implementation is "todo"

string tables just grow soooo slowly, theoretical garbage collection is all you need!

Mar 19 at 7:58pmWeb
Show threadAndy WingoMar 19
@andrewrk optimized out is the best optimized, and you optimized out gc :)
Show threadshironekoMar 20
@andrewrk @wingo kernel level gc