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As long as your data structures are acyclic, that allows for a very low upper bound on GC pause times.

In a cyclic industry with big swings of expansion and contraction, this is a very big deal.

The idea is - if the reader doesn't grok direct products or cyclic groups, he's fucked anyways, so why bother ?

However, this is part of the typical cyclic trend: artists / poor people move into a cheap neighborhood, make it trendy, then get forced out when the rent goes up.

He didn't invent cyclic tag systems, and he didn't come up with the incredibly intricate construction needed to implement them in Rule 110.

"The game of rock-paper-scissors exhibits collective cyclic motions which cannot be understood by the Nash equilibrium concept.

But when we look more closely, we see that Python uses bits of the mark and sweep idea to handle cyclic references, and that both Ruby and Python use generational garbage collection in similar ways.

There are steady advances, but there's very little that's genuinely new under the sun, and quite a bit of what the youngsters get excited about is just the cyclic rediscovery of what we already knew.

A practical workaround for when you have to deal extensively with cyclic data structures is to make use of the fact that each thread has its own heap: thus, putting all time-critical stuff in one thread where cyclic data structures aren't used, and the rest in another thread.

Prisoners of our own device, to repeat our cyclic cosmic history of creating and being enamored of devices...carter announcing that 'those are the bitcoins of the real world' only played into this paranoia more; i think he was trying to tell me "look, you're living in your head and you have to operate according to the perspective of the world.