Nice, will put this paper in my bookmarks for later read.
I feel like once you stop and think about it, the distinction between a 'tracing' GC and a 'non-tracing' GC is specious: To do its work at acquire and release, RC collector must in fact trace a tree of objects. It's just that the semantics of how this is declared might differ, or, more specifically the time(s) in which it does this work.
I feel like once you stop and think about it, the distinction between a 'tracing' GC and a 'non-tracing' GC is specious: To do its work at acquire and release, RC collector must in fact trace a tree of objects. It's just that the semantics of how this is declared might differ, or, more specifically the time(s) in which it does this work.