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Yeah I always thought of distributed GC as a failed research idea from the 80's and 90's, kind of like transparent remote objects (as opposed to messages)

I'd be interested to hear otherwise. And some details about a deployment

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As an EC alum I can tell you that in the late 90s there was a lot of work on E to get both transparent remote objects and distributed garbage collection working. In fact, one of the first patents I remember us having approved was Arturo's garbage collector (https://patents.google.com/patent/US5991779A/en, yes same guy as the Meta whistleblower from a week or so ago) but it was still a bit wonky in practice from what I remember.

OK it's great that it was tried

But it feels like you're saying it was tried and didn't quite pan out? That's what my impression was

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