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Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> writes:

> On 06/08/2026 6:00 AM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>> If garbage collection is so good, why don’t high-performance operating
>> system kernels use it? Why do they prefer reference-counting instead?

to be a high performance kernel you should not need to do garbage
collection. GC is for user space, not kernel space. Kernel developers
are usually very good programmers.