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greenhouse_gas on April 7, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: The reference D compiler is now open source

Also, does the Go standard "require" a mark+sweep?

If you write an implementation which uses Reference Counting, it can be "deterministic" and won't require a runtime.

openasocket on April 7, 2017 [–]

Sure, but then you'll leak data every time there's cycles in your data structures.

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