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How is multi processor and native multi threading support and support of the two concepts in the GC?



The GC is neither parallel nor concurrent. Luis Oliveira implemented a parallel GC in SBCL but it was slower IIRC.


The garbage collector is a stop-the-world collector, but other than that, this implementation has great multiple core / multithread support.




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