To be fair, the drop/dealloc “pause” is very different from what people usually mean when they say “garbage collection pause”, i.e. stop-the-world (…or at least a slice of the world).
That’s fair; Python, Swift, and most Lisps all use or have previously used reference-counting. But the quoted sentence isn’t wrong, since it said no “garbage collection pauses” rather than “garbage collection.”
To be fair, the drop/dealloc “pause” is very different from what people usually mean when they say “garbage collection pause”, i.e. stop-the-world (…or at least a slice of the world).
Yeah, it might be better, I don’t actually know. It’s not as novel as OP maybe thinks it is, though.
That’s fair; Python, Swift, and most Lisps all use or have previously used reference-counting. But the quoted sentence isn’t wrong, since it said no “garbage collection pauses” rather than “garbage collection.”
Yes, I read or interpreted that wrong at first.