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		muxr on May 9, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: For Better Computing, Liberate CPUs from Garbage C... But the GC has to do it in a thread safe way which involves locking/synchronization. Otherwise you get nasty race conditions.

dnautics on May 9, 2019 | [–]

There's no need to lock or synchronize if you're working in a language with immutability and copy on write first class data structures.

didibus on May 9, 2019 | [–]

Well, I can't read the paper, but how is their Chip not having those same issues?

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