What about all the ML-family functional languages? JIT compilation is a fairly recent innovation and I don't think its accurate to say that garbage collection is restricted to JIT compilers.
I never said precise GC (or even GC in general -- see Boehm GC which I cited) is restricted to JIT! Only that this is perhaps the most common case, because type info still exists at runtime. As I mentioned, the compiler can emit the necessary metadata for AOT cases. And I forgot to mention ML and Haskell and friends, sorry.
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What about all the ML-family functional languages? JIT compilation is a fairly recent innovation and I don't think its accurate to say that garbage collection is restricted to JIT compilers.
I never said precise GC (or even GC in general -- see Boehm GC which I cited) is restricted to JIT! Only that this is perhaps the most common case, because type info still exists at runtime. As I mentioned, the compiler can emit the necessary metadata for AOT cases. And I forgot to mention ML and Haskell and friends, sorry.
Go also has a precise garbage collector, by the way.