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		noblethrasher on March 10, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What happens to older developers? Don't most garbage collectors use tracing?

Ihmahr on March 10, 2014 [–]

Only the younger ones...

cwzwarich on March 10, 2014 | [–]

Actually, tracing GC is older than reference counting.

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