GC

[archseer]

Probably either immix or orca. Each process gets it's own heap consisting of blocks that we independently GC.

At the moment we just use blocks as a sort of an arena GC: they belong to a process and get deallocated when a process drops (though no destructors are called, and we need to ensure the process unregisters in the process registry!!!)

Immix

• http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/speedway/DaCapo/papers/immix-pldi-2008.pdf
• https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/cs257/archive/steve-blackburn/rust-ismm-2016.pdf
• https://gitlab.com/inko-lang/inko/tree/master/vm/src/immix

Orca

• https://www.ponylang.io/media/papers/orca_gc_and_type_system_co-design_for_actor_languages.pdf

Golang GC

• https://blog.golang.org/ismmkeynote
• https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/runtime/mgc.go