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Re:Jane Street and the OCaml Compiler (2018) [video] by throwaway720348 on Thursday March 26, 2020 @05:34AM (#22691881)
You can use a language like OCaml without allocating and still capture huge benefits over C++, like a decent type system, ADTs, and better abstractions than templates (modules in OCaml's case).
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Re:Jane Street and the OCaml Compiler (2018) [video] by zerr on Thursday March 26, 2020 @05:39AM (#22691905)
What about multicore? :)

Nowadays Rust seems to cover all those features with zero-cost abstractions.

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Re:Jane Street and the OCaml Compiler (2018) [video] by p_l on Thursday March 26, 2020 @06:09AM (#22692076)
You still need to write non-consing code to avoid memory allocation/deallocation latency, just as if you were working in Java, Lisp or OCaml.

(In fact, GCs can often give you better latency than malloc/free unless you go into custom allocators with object pools... which is part of writing non-consing code in GCed languages)

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Re:Jane Street and the OCaml Compiler (2018) [video] by throwaway720348 on Thursday March 26, 2020 @06:38AM (#22692218)
Ah you're right, I forgot about OCaml's ass-tier multicore support. Rust is definitely better there.
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