Re: RFC: Foreign objects in perl
They used mostly reference counting on short term, and additional marek-and-sweep style for the long. The benchmarks were greatly improved by this division. --Brock
GC - Compile Time
, as I said in theory, would take tons of effort off of the GC, even a simple reference counting one (okay, this might not be true, which is why I'm getting feedback, right?). It would, of course, increase the size of the parse tree. I'm I way off? --Brock