Matthew Plant

Most-linked posts?

1. Writing a Simple Garbage Collector in C
   3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-12-15
2. Writing a Simple Garbage Collector in C
   3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-05-12
3. Writing a Simple Garbage Collector in C
   2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-10-15

What Hacker News says?

1. webkike · 2018-01-25

   I love taking the address of labels. Back in highschool I wrote a couple of articles on using them to create JIT compilers: http://maplant.com/jit_bf.html http://dginasa.blogspot.com/2012/05/jit-compilation-without-...

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   on “Some obscure C features”
2. maplant · 2025-02-17

   Submitted Why I'm writing a Scheme implementation in 2025: Async Rust as a story · 198 points

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3. Apofis · 2026-02-13

   If anyone wants to know why he bothered to do this, he wrote another article explaining: https://maplant.com/2025-02-17-Why-I%27m-Writing-a-Scheme-Im...

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   on “I Wrote a Scheme in 2025”
4. mbroncano · 2019-12-15

   Submitted Writing a Simple Garbage Collector in C as a story · 142 points

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5. samsquire · 2023-02-25

   You mention parallel computation and being open for discussion. My favourite area of computing is parallel computing and multithreading. My toy multithreaded interpreter in Java can communicate integers between threads with message passing. I never got around to communicating complicated objects because I'm not sure how to solve the garbage collection problem with compound data structures/object graphs AND sending o…

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   on “Building a Minimalistic Virtual Machine”
6. maplant · 2024-12-13

   Submitted Garbage collected smart pointers in Rust via concurrent cycle collection as a story · 120 points

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7. samsquire · 2023-04-08Recommends

   if you need code to understand garbage collection, there is walkthrough of garbage collector and C code at http://maplant.com/gc.html is really helpful. I tweaked it to work on amd64 and started adding register scanning based on what eatonphil's discord people told me to do. https://github.com/samsquire/garbage-collector It's not fit for any purpose but more of a learning exercise.

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   on “The Garbage Collection Handbook, 2nd Edition”
8. maplant · 2026-02-09

   Submitted I Wrote a Scheme in 2025 as a story · 5 points

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9. samsquire · 2023-02-09

   This is very interesting. Thank you for submitting. I recently took the source code of the GC on https://maplant.com/gc.html And updated it to work with amd64 and added primitive register scanning. The code might be helpful to someone learning https://GitHub.com/samsquire/garbage-collector One of my ideas is to see if we can do memory management by the absence of a keyword rather than the presence of a keyword. So w…

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   on “The Fascinating Influence of the Cyclone Language”
10. phyrex · 2021-10-15

    Submitted Writing a Simple Garbage Collector in C as a story · 4 points

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11. stevenmh · 2025-03-14

    Submitted Writing a Simple Garbage Collector in C as a story · 3 points

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12. signa11 · 2021-01-23

    Submitted Writing a Simple Garbage Collector in C as a story · 3 points

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13. blueshoess · 2026-08-28

    Submitted 25x Performance, Three Optimizations (2025) as a story · 2 points

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14. davikr · 2024-12-25

    Submitted Writing a Simple Garbage Collector in C as a story · 2 points

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15. stevekemp · 2024-05-12

    Submitted Writing a Simple Garbage Collector in C as a story · 2 points

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16. susam · 2023-04-08

    Submitted Writing a Simple Garbage Collector in C (2020) as a story · 2 points

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