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		Kinrany on Nov 3, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bringing garbage collected programming languages e... > An abstraction that would incidentally be immediately used to emulate threads. That would be a win if performance was the same!

titzer on Nov 3, 2023 [–]

Maybe, but it's extremely rare that abstraction inversion results in the same performance. It's usually a big overhead.

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