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Re:For Better Computing, Liberate CPUs from Garbage Collection by irq11 on Thursday May 09, 2019 @04:09PM (#19871879)
”I have no idea how you've come to that conclusion.”

30 years of experience.

”For the vast majority of memory allocation in any GC'd language I can think of, you spend zero time thinking about memory management 98% of the time.”

No, you think about 98% of the code 0% of the time. The remaining 2% ends up causing so many problems that your amortized time spent on memory management is the same.

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