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Re:For Better Computing, Liberate CPUs from Garbage Collection by baybal2 on Thursday May 09, 2019 @05:51AM (#19866743)
> The reality is we as developers choose not to give languages enough context to accurately infer the lifetime of objects.

Well, if we force devs to describe context, why not simply make them manage memory manually then?

There is nothing wrong with manual memory management. It is not hard at all.

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Re:For Better Computing, Liberate CPUs from Garbage Collection by jcora on Thursday May 09, 2019 @09:15AM (#19867954)
> It is not hard at all.

proceeds to cause trillion dollar damages because literally Terrence Tao couldn't prove major manually-managed programs are correct

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