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chrisseaton on July 19, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: TinyGo: New Go Compiler Based on LLVM

I think the person you’re replying to means a GC that needs headroom, not a GC like Python’s which generally doesn’t.

masklinn on July 19, 2019 [–]

FWIW micropython replace's cpython's refcount-with-cycle-breaker by a mark-and-sweep GC: https://github.com/micropython/micropython/wiki/Memory-Manag...

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