Re:Assault by GC
by Roboprog on Monday October 24, 2011 @12:04PM
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As a developer working primarily in Java, I'm jealous that this is an option for the .NET (C#) people. Not jealous enough to want to work on Windows, or have to trust Mono not to get sued, but jealous, nonetheless.
Garbage collection is a wonderful option. It gets old when it's the only hammer you have.
What a joy to be able to maintain a large cache in your program, rather than having to rely on an external service. What a joy for virtual memory to actually work, rather than constantly (every 2 or 3 seconds) swapping back in something that wouldn't otherwise be used for a while, and even more frequently thrashing on L1/L2 caches.
Garbage collection is a wonderful option. It gets old when it's the only hammer you have.
What a joy to be able to maintain a large cache in your program, rather than having to rely on an external service. What a joy for virtual memory to actually work, rather than constantly (every 2 or 3 seconds) swapping back in something that wouldn't otherwise be used for a while, and even more frequently thrashing on L1/L2 caches.