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Fil's Unbelievable Garbage Collector

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597 points pizlonator | 1 comments | 05 Sep 25 00:55 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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AndyKelley ◴[05 Sep 25 04:44 UTC] No.45135042[source]▶
Super cool project. Sorry if you explained this already, I don't know what "Dijkstra accurate" means. How does it know if an object is truly available to be reclaimed, given that pointers can be converted to integers?
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1. shim__ ◴[05 Sep 25 13:21 UTC] No.45138263[source]▶
Pointers are always integers, which can be interpreted as pointers.