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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 coldtea on Wednesday July 06, 2016 @09:24PM (#12046953)
>I think you missed the bit where he said "more intelligent compiler"

Also known as "sufficiently smart compiler": http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SufficientlySmartCompiler

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Re:Go’s march to low-latency GC by weberc2 on Thursday July 07, 2016 @12:21PM (#12050290)
These are different things. A sufficiently smart compiler is a hypothetical compiler that could theoretically optimize a high level language so that it could be faster than some low level language. This isn't what we're talking about here--we're talking about the concrete ability of the Rust compiler to preclude certain classes of errors.
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