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amelius

The compiler part of a language is actually a piece of cake compared to designing a concurrent garbage collector.

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A good enough one isn't so bad. Here's an example concurrent collector that was used with the Inferno OS:

https://github.com/inferno-os/inferno-os/blob/master/libinte...

There's lots of room to improve it, but it worked well enough to run on telephony equipment in prod.

This has gotta be one of the most dunning-kruger comments on hn

Maybe I should have formulated it the other way around then.

Not really... A true concurrent high-throughput low-latency garbage collector is the stuff of nightmares. Just ask Azul Systems that sells real-time JDK for the high-performance trading applications.

Ladies and gentlemen dunning-kruger contender #2

^ Found a person who hasn't worked on high-througput GCs!

^ Found a person who hasn't worked on high-throughout compilers!

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