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conservative-gc
- Dec 17, 2024 Leak Detection by Reachability Rather Than Allocation Count How heap profilers decide that a block is leaked: root sets, conservative scanning, and why a pointer held in a register or a stale stack slot changes the answer. systems programming
- Jan 9, 2024 Conservative Stack Scanning Without Type Maps How a collector can treat any word that falls inside the heap as a pointer, why that forces a non-moving heap, and what the ambiguity costs in retention and false roots. language runtimes