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Comment by wavemode

4 hours ago

> No garbage collector

> Slots are stable for the life of the process; the heap grows with distinct content only.

So how is a program supposed to handle lots of unique content? Like a web server handling user requests?

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skrebbel  4 hours ago

I apologize, you’re absolutely right!

Retr0id  3 hours ago

Taking it at face value, you'd spawn a subprocess to handle each web request and exit once it's done.

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