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I built a garbage collector for Rust (2023)

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Summary

Clayton Ramsey's 2023 blog post documents building a garbage collector for Rust, explaining the motivation, architecture (Gc, GcBox), and techniques to detect reachability, handle cycles, and support bulk dropping. It also covers concurrency considerations, amortized collection, and a comparison against other collectors, with links to the GitHub source and crates.io crate for Dumpster.

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