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| | After the digression in the previous post, it's time to get back to what I promised in the first post: a look at how shifgrethor handles rooting. Shifgrethor's solution is somewhat novel and takes advantage of some of Rust's specific features, so I want to start by looking briefly at some of the other options. How to root a GC'd object There are two broad categories of rooting strategies that are common among precise, tracing garbage collectors:
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| | I'm really excited to share with you an experiment that I've been working on for the past 5 or 6 weeks. It's a Rust library called shifgrethor. shifgrethor implements a garbage collector in Rust with an API I believe to be properly memory safe. I'll be going through all of the technical details in future blog posts, so I want to kick this series off with a high level overview of the project's purpose and design decisions.
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