Re:PHP: A fractal of bad design
by blackhole on Tuesday April 10, 2012 @03:00PM
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Meanwhile, people still manage to write memory leaks in garbage collected languages specifically designed to not leak memory.
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GC is not about preventing memory leaks, it's there to make managing memory easier not automatic. One of it's biggest advantages is the ability to deal with memory fragmentation which is ridiculously hard to do well in C++ style languages.