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0 pointsgus_massa3y ago0 comments

Racket has like 5 GC, perhaps more.

In one extreme you can build Racket using the Senora GC that is conservative and not moving, that is used only for bootstraping.

On the other extreme, both of the normal versions of Racket have custom moving incremental GC. The docs with some high level explanations are in https://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/garbagecollection.htm...

The implementation details of the main "CS" version are in https://github.com/racket/racket/blob/master/racket/src/Chez... It's a replacement of the default GC of Chez Scheme that has better support for some features that are used in Racket, but I never have looked so deeply in the details.

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eru3y ago

Thanks for doing the legwork! I didn't find anything definite in twenty seconds of Googling, so I left my comment vague.

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0 pointsgus_massa3y ago0 comments

Racket has like 5 GC, perhaps more.

In one extreme you can build Racket using the Senora GC that is conservative and not moving, that is used only for bootstraping.