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		jlouis on Dec 9, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Imperative + Functional == :-) Hah, all sane modern languages needs to patch LLVM for GC reasons :) The guys writing it did not really know a lot about that area and how to get those intrinsic features into the LLVM proper.

dbaupp on Dec 9, 2012 [–]

Are "the guys" the LLVM people or the Rust implementers?

pjmlp on Dec 9, 2012 | [–]

I imagine the LLVM people.

If you look at the LLVM documentation there is still a lot to do to be able to support most performant GC algorithms.

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