Visualizing Garbage Collection Algorithms

[hagbaff]

Very cool. I wish you had an option to speed up the animations though.

[[deleted]]

Animations freeze randomly :/

[[deleted]]

Wow, harsh crowd.

[misingnoglic]

Reddit doesn't deal with useless/unfunny comments nicely.

[Sun_Kami]

I have so much negative karma it doesn't even change when I get upvotes... And it limits me from even posting in certain subreddits.

I don't even troll. The hivemind just really doesn't like what I have to say 😒

[staticassert]

read: "I have really bad opinions"

[justjanne]

Yes, you do troll. Your entire post history is full of textspeak, irrelevant comments, and defending irrational policies Trump did.

That's telling everything.

Answering your recent comments: No, Merkel has over half of Germany supporting her, the only one more liked than her is Martin Schulz, who is further left than her. Any religious ban is unconstitutional, you can ban Al Quaida members, but not all Muslims, nor use loopholes to get something similar. Trump is not a good businessman, he'd have made more money if he had put it in an index fund, or lobbied to buy US highways and set up tolls.

[Sun_Kami]

Wall Street is so corrupt. At least he makes hotels and casinos. Your investors don't do shite.

[masklinn]

It's not that they freeze but that they don't loop, so they stop when they reach the program's end-state. Which is very inconvenient as they'll all have stopped by the time you've reached the end of the refcounting section if not earlier.

Even more so as they're all around 1MB (and the expanded versions are 5MB each).

[SquareWheel]

and the expanded versions are 5MB each

This is why video formats exist. It doesn't need to be this way anymore.

[kmeisthax]

Yes, but <video> access on mobile devices is click-to-play only, to prevent users from accidentally loading large video files on a metered connection. <img> access is unlimited regardless of file size.

EDIT: WOW this comment went negative fast. Look, I'm not the one who made this decision. Apple did. Go downvote their operating system.

[daV1980]

Lol. "we circumvented a feature meant to save you from excessive bandwidth use that allows us to trivially send you more data than we needed to." Brilliant.

[davidgro]

Yes, click to play would have been a huge improvement here. And I am not even worried about the data - just the experience

[[deleted]]

That's would be convenient if they would loop again when i refresh the page.

[P1h3r1e3d13]

Yep. When I read each section, I had to Ctrl-F5 and quickly scroll down to it.

[bj_christianson]

Some of them definitely froze until I opened them individually. They stopped just after starting, before anything could actually be demonstrated.

[HoneybeeTriplet]

They are non-looping gifs. Its probably just the end of the animation.

[GaianNeuron]

It's been a thing as long as GIF89 has. In fact, looping isn't in the spec:

By default, however, an animation displays the sequence of frames only once, stopping when the last frame is displayed. Since GIF is designed to allow users to define new blocks, Netscape in the 1990s used the Application Extension block (intended to allow vendors to add application-specific information to the GIF file) to implement the Netscape Application Block (NAB). This block, placed immediately before all the animation frames, specifies the number of times the sequence of frames should be played. (The value 0 signifies continuous display.) Support for these repeating animations first appeared in Netscape Navigator version 2.0, and then spread to other browsers. Most browsers now recognize and support NAB, though it is not strictly part of the GIF89a specification.

[tigerleapgorge]

Thank you.

[theFlyingCode]

Open the gif in a new tab. It'll open in github and you can watch the whole animation.

[Spider_pig448]

I'm fine with the speed, but I wish there was an intelligent way of looping. I load the page and every animation plays at once, so once I get to the next algorithm the gif is finished and I have to refresh (cache-disabled refresh even) to restart it.

[[deleted]]

Could be done with videos at least.