Re:D as a C Replacement
by umanwizard on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @11:24PM
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I’ve seen large, poorly written Java programs[0] where an entire core at 100% is dedicated to the GC. I have never seen that behavior for things like ~shared_ptr in C++ or similar languages.
Then again, OOMing due to leaks is something you’re more likely to see in poorly-written systems in non-GC languages (Objective-C, C, C++, etc), so there are certainly trade offs.
[0]: Maybe “poorly written” is unfair. Perhaps “written by people who are unaware of how to write code that performs well in a GC system”.
Then again, OOMing due to leaks is something you’re more likely to see in poorly-written systems in non-GC languages (Objective-C, C, C++, etc), so there are certainly trade offs.
[0]: Maybe “poorly written” is unfair. Perhaps “written by people who are unaware of how to write code that performs well in a GC system”.