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Re:Graphics Team ships WebRender MVP by chronogram on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @09:23AM (#19969887)
Is GC a negative? I’ve yet to see anyone go “well I would’ve written this in Golang but it’s got GC”. Even that new Windows driver style, where it’s split in two, can have half of it being GC’d, right? Looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Driver_Frameworks at least.
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Re:Graphics Team ships WebRender MVP by saagarjha on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @09:59AM (#19970192)
> I’ve yet to see anyone go “well I would’ve written this in Golang but it’s got GC”.

This is a dealbreaker in a lot of contexts where garbage collection pauses would be unacceptable.

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Re:Graphics Team ships WebRender MVP by ncmncm on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @10:03AM (#19970229)
Yes, GC is a negative. There is a huge literature in measures to mitigate its negatives. These always involve trading off one against another, and libraries are frequently incompatible with any particular mix of them.
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Re:Graphics Team ships WebRender MVP by BubRoss on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @06:43PM (#19975880)
A GC is literally the only reason I haven't tried go.
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