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aboodman on Aug 26, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: JavaScript: Servo’s only garbage collector

This is similarly motivated, and a similar approach to Oilpan in Chromium (http://www.chromium.org/blink/blink-gc).

But because Oilpan is written in C++, there is still some manual annotation of GC'd members that needs to be done.

mccr8 on Aug 26, 2014 [–]

DOM workers in Gecko also used to use this approach, but it was a bit ad hoc so eventually it was abandoned in favor of using the cycle collector.

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