Fil-C Programming Language's Parallel Concurrent Garbage Collector Implementation
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Summary
Fil-C is a programming language runtime that features FUGC (Fil's Unbelievable Garbage Collector), a sophisticated parallel concurrent on-the-fly grey-stack Dijkstra accurate non-moving garbage collector. The garbage collector operates with multiple threads for both marking and sweeping phases, leveraging multiple CPU cores for faster performance. The article provides technical details about the garbage collector's architecture and implementation, noting that the core code in fugc.c requires extensive support from the runtime and compiler to function properly.
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The more cores you have, the faster the collector finishes
that code cannot possibly work without lots of support logic in the rest of the runtime and in the compiler
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