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At the moment I have no direct intention to use Nim (nor do I have any direct intentions to avoid using Nim). But, it is good to see that mark-and-sweep is a possible GC strategy.

As far as "speed" vs "completeness/correctness" goes, in many (maybe even most) cases, if I have to choose between them, I tend to choose "completeness/correctness".

At work, I changed one of our cluster build pipelines from "fast" to "correct" (making it take about 16x longer to complete). Unfortunately, that was as an action highlighted in a port-mortem as one of the root causes of a cluster completely imploding.



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