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Re:For Better Computing, Liberate CPUs from Garbage Collection by dleslie on Thursday May 09, 2019 @11:51AM (#19869334)
For 95% of the code you write it's not a concern; that last 5% sure can eat up time if your software has any concern about performance.
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Re:For Better Computing, Liberate CPUs from Garbage Collection by cblades on Thursday May 09, 2019 @12:03PM (#19869442)
Totally agree. I don't think that tradeoff is particularly out-balanced by the time it takes to do manual memory management.
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