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Re:Why is D's garbage collection slower than GO's? by xigoi on Saturday October 29, 2022 @09:53AM (#33384055)
Why? It's a low-level implementation detail. Should you also always think about registers and jumps?
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Re:Why is D's garbage collection slower than GO's? by tjoff on Saturday October 29, 2022 @02:04PM (#33386483)
It is absolute not a low level detail, it is a huge part of your application and cannot be ignored.
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Re:Why is D's garbage collection slower than GO's? by xigoi on Saturday October 29, 2022 @02:16PM (#33386589)
Interesting, I've made many programs without caring about memory management and they worked just fine.
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Re:Why is D's garbage collection slower than GO's? by lawn on Saturday October 29, 2022 @03:50PM (#33387404)
It completely depends on what application you're creating if it can be ignored or not.
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