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Re:Promotion rate impact on garbage collected languages by nosideeffects on Friday September 25, 2015 @09:49AM (#10278093)
Why does it take so much effort to use a garbage collected runtime efficiently? Wasn't the purpose of a GC in the first place to make things easier for the developer?
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Re:Promotion rate impact on garbage collected languages by ivom2gi on Friday September 25, 2015 @10:03AM (#10278172)
It actually does remove a lot of hassle from developers. But with every abstraction, the complexity is not actually removed, just hidden. This means that in situations where the abstraction fails, you would need to still understand the hidden complexity ...
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Re:Promotion rate impact on garbage collected languages by sp332 on Friday September 25, 2015 @10:04AM (#10278177)
Tuning a few knobs on the GC is still a heck of a lot easier than managing memory yourself.
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