Serious question: How will memory management work for this?
Not-so-serious corollary: How much RAM would a Wolfram wolf if a Wolfram would wolf RAM?
Not-so-serious corollary: How much RAM would a Wolfram wolf if a Wolfram would wolf RAM?
There's a garbage collector, and the symbolic structure of the language makes it quite effective. You can also manually control the memory manager, one nice feature of Mathematica is how exposed it is.
http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/tutorial/MemoryMana...
> How much RAM would a Wolfram wolf if a Wolfram would wolf RAM?
Easily the funniest thing I've read on HN. You're my hero.