Cyclic references in garbage collection

Posted Jan 3, 2025 17:33 UTC (Fri) by daroc (editor, #160859)
In reply to: Cyclic references in garbage collection by sionescu
Parent article: Preventing data races with Pony

Pony's advantage over Erlang is that sending messages doesn't need a deep copy, because of the compile-time checks. So while you can make a deep copy if you want to, you don't have to if that will be detrimental to performance.