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Firefox has an internal GC for C++ objects managed by its XPCOM system.[1] It's called the "cycle collector".

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Tech/XPCOM/...




And Servo uses a GC deeply within its Rust code too (the JS one, in fact). I think the benefits in Servo with respect to GC would mainly be because the code is new/learnt from the mistakes of the old (and avoided historical baggage), rather than because it is in Rust.




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