Rewriting a Commercial Engine in Jai(polygonjs.com)
60 points by frading | 49 comments
Blog post by Polygon's creator explaining why he rewrote the TypeScript/three.js procedural geometry engine from scratch in Jai with a custom WebGPU renderer.
#garbage-collection on Hacker News
11 stories tagged garbage-collection, newest first.
First Steps into Memory Management in Python(tech.daniellbastos.com.br)
4 points by shellpipe | 0 comments
A personal blog post exploring how CPython allocates and manages memory, written as study notes before diving into garbage collection.
A 40ms Go garbage collector pause caused by swap(frn.sh)
91 points by shellpipe | 78 comments
A blog post explaining how running swap in production caused a 40ms Go garbage collector pause due to cgroup-level page eviction.
A new way to manage memory: no garbage collection, extremely fast & safe access(ulanguage.org)
10 points by EGreg | 3 comments
Documentation page describing the U programming language's memory architecture: DAG ownership, slab chain allocation, NaN-boxed values, and stable ordered maps without garbage collection.
CS 6120: Advanced Compilers: The Self-Guided Online Course (2020)(cs.cornell.edu)
422 points by ibobev | 59 comments
Landing page for the self-guided online version of Cornell's CS 6120 PhD-level Advanced Compilers course by Adrian Sampson, with lessons, videos, papers, and implementation tasks.
Fil's Unbelievable Garbage Collector(fil-c.org)
556 points by pizlonator | 255 comments
Documentation page describing FUGC, Fil-C's parallel concurrent on-the-fly non-moving Dijkstra garbage collector for memory-safe C/C++.
Writing that changed how I think about programming languages(bernsteinbear.com)
388 points by r4um | 48 comments
A blog post listing papers, posts, and videos on programming languages and compilers that changed the author's thinking, with short commentary on each.
Garbage collection for systems programmers (2023)(bitbashing.io)
364 points by ingve | 202 comments
A 2023 Bit Bashing blog post arguing that garbage collection techniques, such as read-copy-update, are useful and already common in systems programming.
CS 6120: Advanced Compilers: The Self-Guided Online Course(cs.cornell.edu)
367 points by swatson741 | 78 comments
Self-guided online version of Cornell's PhD-level CS 6120 Advanced Compilers course by Adrian Sampson, with lessons, videos, papers, and LLVM-based implementation tasks.
Bringing garbage collected programming languages efficiently to WebAssembly(v8.dev)
401 points by kiyanwang | 238 comments
V8 blog post detailing how garbage-collected languages like Java, Kotlin, and Dart can be ported to WebAssembly, comparing traditional WasmMVP porting with WasmGC.
The Garbage Collection Handbook, 2nd Edition(routledge.com)
343 points by zzxcvb | 153 comments
Routledge product page for the 2nd edition of The Garbage Collection Handbook by Jones, Hosking, and Moss, a book on automatic memory management.