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		thomasmg 28 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Note on Fil-C I'm not sure what you mean. Do you mean there is a bug _in the garbage collection algorithm_, if the object is not freed in the very next garbage collection cycle? Well, it depends: the garbage collection could defers collection of some objects until memory is low. Multi-generation garbage collection algorithm often do this.

cyberax 27 days ago [–]

You can defer the actual freeing of the object until at least one GC pass finishes. Then alert if any of them are still reachable.

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