Oh, you just mean it's a kind of garbage collection that's lighter on pauses. Sorry, I've had the "my pre-Rust pet language already does what Rust does" conversation on here too many times.

[–] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

To be fair, the drop/dealloc "pause" is very different from what people usually mean when they say "garbage collection pause", i.e. stop-the-world (...or at least a slice of the world).

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Yeah, it might be better, I don't actually know. It's not as novel as OP maybe thinks it is, though.

[–] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's fair; Python, Swift, and most Lisps all use or have previously used reference-counting. But the quoted sentence isn't wrong, since it said no "garbage collection pauses" rather than "garbage collection."

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yes, I read or interpreted that wrong at first.

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