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A comment on Go’s march to low-latency GC. Parent comment

Re:Go’s march to low-latency GC by ssalazar on Wednesday July 06, 2016 @04:50PM (#12045816)
s/isn't possible to write correctly/is difficult to write correctly cheaply in non-trivial applications/

and you pretty much have it. Building higher-level abstractions has historically been a good thing, unless your day job is punching in opcodes.

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Re:Go’s march to low-latency GC by vvanders on Wednesday July 06, 2016 @04:56PM (#12045844)
I was more poking fun at the hyperbole that it's not possible to hire anyone who writes C at a reasonable rate.
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