This is a blog post about the garbage collection framework MMTk and my experience implementing it into our own Rust-based intepreters. We talk about Rust a lot here, but we forgo a lot of its guarantees, for better or for worse, but definitely for performance. To be clear, these are research projects and not production systems.
This is part of a series of blog posts relating my experience pushing the performance of programming language interpreters written in Rust. For added context, read the start of last week’s blog post.