Fair, I've never tried to write a GC language targeting C. The portability situation is better now, sure; back when I started playing with LLVM even Windows support was shaky.
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(Runner up is Chromium, which is not fully precise GC, but it does precise collections once the event loop is done and there’s no native code on the stack, which is usually good enough.)
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My kernel does precise GC at process boundary
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Yet accidentally leaving a Twitter tab open overnight still makes the browser permanently unusable until restart, even after closing the tab.
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Save about:memory next time you see it, I can look at it
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The reference counting is for DOM objects?
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Yeah. I wish it were all GC’d, but it isn’t…
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Agreed that targeting C limits GC algorithms. Really it's Boehm or do something else than C