Nasal GC Musings: Difference between revisions

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The focus of the following article is to promote a better understanding of garbage collection in general, specifically mark/sweep collectors and how a generational garbage collector (GC) could be implemented in FlightGear by adapting the existing mark/sweep collector.  

The goal is not to create a new GC implementation from scratch, but rather to understand and improve upon the existing GC scheme to make it more efficient.  

It is important to emphasize that the very first steps in improving the garbage collection (GC) performance in Nasal should be to fully understand the existing GC implementation. This means studying the existing GC code, understanding how it works, and identifying its strengths and weaknesses. Only by thoroughly understanding the existing GC can we begin to make informed decisions about how to improve it.