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Re:Zed Shaw on C++ by eru on Friday July 16, 2010 @10:08AM (#1521182)
Why would you allocate a large chunk of memory, when you are using a garbage collected language?

There may be reasons to want to mix manual and automatic memory management. If you want to do that, there are language that support it. Like D.

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Re:Zed Shaw on C++ by kvs on Sunday July 18, 2010 @09:50PM (#1527344)
Not necessarily allocating very large chunks in bulk but umm... Allocating nodes for a million nodes of a graph and subsequently processing them. Java JVM fragments memory heavily. En
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