Speeding Up the Plush Garbage Collector
A developer discusses the challenges of optimizing a custom garbage collector for a toy programming language called Plush. The author details their attempt to achieve sub-20ms collection times for one million objects to support high-performance game engine development.
Those who have been reading this blog or following me on X know that I tend to jump between side-projects. A while back, I made a conscious decision to allow myself to follow my motivation and explore new ideas, because I think it's important for side-projects to feel fun, and never become a chore. That being said, every once in a while I find myself thinking about a project that I set aside a while back, and how I could push it further.
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