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Incremental garbage collection from safe Rust

4 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 0 stories, 4 comments · first 2020-05-24 · latest 2026-01-12

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  1. Did you notice the https://github.com/kyren/gc-arena mentioned (via Lobsters)?
    comment by yencabulator · 2026-01-12 · in Garbage collection is contrarian
  2. Just for reference, the gc-arena crate ( https://github.com/kyren/gc-arena ) we use in Ruffle's Actionscript 1/2/3 interpreters and across the entire engine, does this. As far as we know, it's safe and sound, at the cost of some…
    comment by adrian17 · 2024-07-31 · in Crafting Interpreters with Rust: On Garbage Collection
  3. …we use gc_arena as our garbage collector. It enforces no_drop in it's Collect derive macro. See: https://github.com/kyren/gc-arena/blob/master/src/gc-arena-d... Actually, I lied: no_drop is one of two safe constraints you can use Collect…
    comment by kmeisthax · 2023-08-15 · in I built a garbage collector for a language that doesn’t need one
  4. …recent attempt: https://boats.gitlab.io/blog/post/shifgrethor-i/ The most recent attempt I know of: https://github.com/kyren/gc-arena/ I think gc-arena is fairly similar to josephine- both treat the GC heap itself as a container-like…
    comment by Rusky · 2020-05-24 · in Chromium project finds that 70% of security defects are memory safety problems