Patrick Dubroy i 11/14/2025

devlog: garbage collection is useful

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The article details a developer's experience applying concepts from the 'A Unified Theory of Garbage Collection' paper to optimize a bidirectional text editor. The project uses Ohm for incremental parsing and ProseMirror for rendering. The core problem was efficiently identifying dead nodes after edits without scanning the entire document, a challenge analogous to garbage collection.

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