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Re:Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream Programming by adgjlsfhk1 on Monday June 06, 2022 @01:19AM (#31637431)
That's true, but malloc/free based systems also have a relatively high memory overhead due to fragmentation and programmers being worse at inserting frees than the GC. It's not at all clear that the C/C++ model of memory management has lower than 100% overhead for long running programs.
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Re:Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream Programming by ssokolow on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @10:49PM (#31662642)
> but malloc/free based systems also have a relatively high memory overhead due to fragmentation

In case you haven't seen it, there's been some interesting progress on that front:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1UBJbfR-H0

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