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Let's Write a Malloc
Never forget:
https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/12/08/babys-first-ga...
> Let me stress here that while this collector is simple, it isn’t a toy.
> There are a ton of optimizations you can build on top of this—in GCs and programming languages, optimization is 90% of the effort—but the core code here is a legitimate real GC.
> It’s very similar to the collectors that were in Ruby and Lua until recently.
> You can ship production code that uses something exactly like this.
> Now go build something awesome!
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loxcraft: a compiler, language server, and online playground for the Lox programming language
Bob Nystrom also has a blog, and his articles are really well written (see his post on Pratt parsers / garbage collectors). I'd also recommend going through the source code for Wren, it shares a lot of code with Lox. Despite the deceptive simplicity of the implementation, it (like Lox) is incredibly fast - it's a great way to learn how to build production grade compilers in general.
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The Garbage Collection Handbook, 2nd Edition
Bob Nystrom (of Game Programming Patterns, Crafting Interpreters, and dartfmt fame) also wrote a tutorial[1], of a precise as opposed to a conservative garbage collector.
Regarding register scanning, Andreas Kling has made (or at least quoted) an amusing observation[2] that your C runtime already has a primitive to dump all callee-save registers onto the stack: setjmp(). So all you have to do to scan registers is to put a jmp_buf onto the stack, setjmp() to it, then scan the stack normally starting from its address.
[1] https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/12/08/babys-first-ga...
[2] https://youtu.be/IzB6iTeo8kk
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Ask HN: Do you recall any book or course that made a topic finally click?
- http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/12/08/babys-first-gar...
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Garbage Collection with LLVM
Might not be that hard: https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/12/08/babys-first-garbage-collector/
- Baby’s First Garbage Collector (2013)
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Reference Count, Don't Garbage Collect
To better understand garbage collection, nothing better than implementation. This article is such a joy to read:
https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/12/08/babys-first-ga...
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The Garbage Collection Handbook, 2nd Edition
Not really, here it is winning hands down over Swift's ARC implementation.
https://github.com/ixy-languages/ixy-languages
- rust devs in a nutshell
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So what you doing for the weeknd
You laugh, but ... https://github.com/ixy-languages/ixy-languages
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Blog post: My perspective on RAII and memory management in C++ and Rust
GC'd languages are designed to leverage GCs, meaning they usually allocate a lot. Some of the more recent ones (C#, Go) have ways around it or to limit it, but in your average GC'd language you have to really bend yourself out of shape to limit allocations (IIRC the Ixy effort / study / thing never managed to make the Java hotpath allocation-free).
- “Rust is safe” is not some kind of absolute guarantee of code safety
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I wrote a database engine in Typescript
It's kind of funny when you see things like this project: https://github.com/ixy-languages/ixy-languages
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What are my prospects in web programming, if I don't like JS?
like not-even-in-the-same-ballpark faster. In this realworld example (userspace network drivers in managed languages) JS manages about 20-30% of native code performance, python iirc is below 1%
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Don’t call it a comeback: Why Java is still champ
- Support for generic-aware value types (struct vs. class) and low-level features like stackalloc: very valuable for high-performance scenarios and native FFI. See for instance https://github.com/ixy-languages/ixy-languages. In comparison, Java doesn't even have unsigned integers. Yes, Project Valhalla is coming someday.
As well, debatable to some folks, but: properties (get/set); operator overloading; LINQ > Java streams; extension methods; default parameters; collection initializers; tuples; nullable reference types; a dozen smaller features
- Reference Count, Don't Garbage Collect
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Why did you switch from another language to Rust? Do you regret not learning it earlier?
Very bottom of this file https://github.com/ixy-languages/ixy-languages/blob/master/Java-garbage-collectors.md
What are some alternatives?
c-examples - Example C code
ctl - The C Template Library
zig.vim - Vim configuration for Zig
cats - Lightweight, modular, and extensible library for functional programming.
mmtk-core - Memory Management ToolKit
redgrep - ♥ Janusz Brzozowski
git-from-the-bottom-up - An introduction to the architecture and design of the Git content manager
rust-gc - Simple tracing (mark and sweep) garbage collector for Rust
iced_audio - An extension to the Iced GUI library with useful widgets for audio applications
Mesh - A memory allocator that automatically reduces the memory footprint of C/C++ applications.
zig - General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.