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Comment by trumpdong

18 hours ago

The Linux kernel has garbage collection, and not just the controversial refcount kind.

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yencabulator  43 minutes ago

I'll go further. Linux heavily uses a form of garbage collection that cannot be implemented in typical userspace (without awkward & slower additions to the consistency algorithm).

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