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Re:Ffsend – Share Files from the CLI: A Firefox Send Client ... by andrepd on Saturday December 28, 2019 @08:12AM (#21898695)
GCs have a nonzero overhead wrt manual management. This is an undeniable fact. The only time they can compare is for memory allocation profiles that already "emulate" a sort of a tracing/refcounted GC themselves.
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Re:Ffsend – Share Files from the CLI: A Firefox Send Client ... by pjmlp on Saturday December 28, 2019 @09:58AM (#21899194)
Many GC enabled languages offer other ways to manage resources as well.
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