Progress on the Gilectomy

[Rustom Mody]

On Tuesday, June 20, 2017 at 5:53:00 AM UTC+5:30, Cem Karan wrote:
> On Jun 19, 2017, at 6:19 PM, Gregory Ewing wrote:
> 
> > Ethan Furman wrote:
> >> Let me ask a different question:  How much effort is required at the C level when using tracing garbage collection?
> > 
> > That depends on the details of the GC implementation, but often
> > you end up swapping one form of boilerplate (maintaining ref
> > counts) for another (such as making sure the GC system knows
> > about all the temporary references you're using).
> > 
> > Some, such as the Bohm collector, try to figure it all out
> > automagically, but they rely on non-portable tricks and aren't
> > totally reliable.
> 
> Can you give examples of how it's not reliable?  I'm currently using it in one of my projects, so if it has problems, I need to know about them.

Saw this this morning
https://medium.com/@alexdixon/functional-programming-in-javascript-is-an-antipattern-58526819f21e

May seem irrelevant to this, but if JS, FP is replaced by Python, GC it becomes
more on topical