Backup tracing collector for rc cycles reclamation
by Leandro Lucarella on 2008- 09- 07 04:05 (updated on 2009- 04- 02 21:42)- with 0 comment(s)
The simpler way to reclaim cycles is to use a backup tracing garbage collector. But this way, even when GC frequency could be much lower, the infomation of reference counters are not used, and pauses can be very long (depending on the backup algorithm used).
I think some kind of mixture between RC and tracing GC could be done so I wont discard this option just yet, but I think more specialized algorithms can do better in this case.