None of the techniques that's gone into V8 are all that novel. Most of them - at...

vidarh on April 9, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ruby 2.1 Garbage Collection: ready for production

None of the techniques that's gone into V8 are all that novel. Most of them - at least the ones that are relevant to Ruby - stems from research around Smalltalk and Self that's been well known for a very long time. The hard/time consuming part is implementing them.