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monocasa on Aug 14, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: I built a garbage collector for a language that do...

You normally fix that not with the GC itself, but with the compiler.

If new Object() truly doesn't have any effects visible other than the valid reference, then it's creation can be moved to after the if statement.

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