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Re:Rust and the Future of Systems Programming [video] by naasking on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @03:53PM (#12971405)
> With GC you are not in control so there are fewer choices. You will not be able to make guarantees.

Not true. Hard and soft realtime GCs with sub-microsecond latencies exist. Latency is a property of a runtime, not of manual vs. automatic storage reclamation.

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Re:Rust and the Future of Systems Programming [video] by worik on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @05:36PM (#12972257)
That is a misunderstanding of latency.

"Very fast" is still latency.

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Re:Rust and the Future of Systems Programming [video] by naasking on Thursday November 17, 2016 @12:43AM (#12974685)
"No latency" is a fiction. The only question of any relevance is how much latency is tolerable for a given domain. And describing latency in worst-case timings is standard, so I understand latency just fine thanks.
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