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David Binger wrote:
> The Durus collector does require disk space proportional to the number/size
> of live objects in the storage.

Like any storage system :-p

I was talking about RAM usage.

> Can you write a cycle detector that does not require, in the worst
> case, space that is proportional to the number of objects?

No, I guess I could became rich if... :-p

I always can use the disk as temporal scratch space, if compelling
enough. I am currently fairly happy with the reference counter collector
and nobody has made any comment so far, so...

>> Garbage Collection is hard.
>
> yes

Tired of reading articles about GC... :-p

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