Re:Rust and the Future of Systems Programming [video]
by naasking on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @03:39PM
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> The reason why no malloc/free implementations that I'm aware of actually do this is that the latency of freeing isn't a problem in practice.
Partly, and the other part is that it degrades allocation performance for the majority of non-problematic programs, which is what most people actually focus on.
But if we're being fair, latency of tracing GC isn't a problem for most programs either. So latency is largely a red herring, except when it's not, and you had better know when it's not, regardless of whether you're using C/C++/Rust or a runtime with tracing GC.
Partly, and the other part is that it degrades allocation performance for the majority of non-problematic programs, which is what most people actually focus on.
But if we're being fair, latency of tracing GC isn't a problem for most programs either. So latency is largely a red herring, except when it's not, and you had better know when it's not, regardless of whether you're using C/C++/Rust or a runtime with tracing GC.