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Interestingly I never saw that phenomen on ETHZ graphical Workstations powered by AOS.

And apparently no one noticed that a part of Bing used Midori for a while.

That is alrigth, according to Midori team, Windows team also did not accept what Midori was capable of, even when proven wrong.

Having a GC is non different than malloc spending all its time doing context switches to reclaim more OS memory, using the actual OS memory management APIs.

It is up to the developers to decided to use a GC based allocation, stack, global memory segment or plain untraced heap allocations.

The tools are there, naturally there is a learning process that many seem unwilling to do.

And by the way, Swift's reference counting implementation gets wiped out by tracing GCs on the ixy paper.



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