Is this the equivalent work of Oilpan project for Chromium-Blink? https://groups...

pcwalton · on Jan 20, 2014

No, Oilpan is different; it's a garbage collector for C++ objects, while exact rooting is for JS objects. Oilpan has more in common with the XPCOM cycle collector in purpose (although the approach is different), which Firefox has had for several years now but which WebKit has had no equivalent to.

DannyBee · on Jan 20, 2014

Right, and on the flip side, V8 has had a generational, incremental JS collector for quite a while :)

mccr8 · on Jan 21, 2014

For what its worth, it looks like v8 has had incremental GC since 2011 ( http://blog.chromium.org/2011/11/game-changer-for-interactiv... and generational GC for longer) while Firefox has had IGC since 2012 ( https://blog.mozilla.org/javascript/2012/08/28/incremental-g... ).