[coyotos-dev] GC as a helper process

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

Pierre:

Do you mean a *disk* garbage collector or an application-level garbage
collector?

Concerning the rest: yes, many parts *could* be split out. It is not
always useful to do so. There are two competing design rules:

  For security purposes you want objects to be as small and simple
  as possible.

  For human maintainability, you want objects and libraries to consist
  of some "natural" size that captures a coherent piece of function in
  a way that can be maintained.

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