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Re:The C++ Programming Language (4th Edition) by derefr on Sunday May 12, 2013 @03:59AM (#5693544)
> garbage collected languages just don't work. You can't have the system stall for seconds or even tens of seconds unless it's purely a batch workload.

What about languages like Erlang and Rust where each actor/object/process has its own heap, GCed individually?

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Re:The C++ Programming Language (4th Edition) by fauigerzigerk on Sunday May 12, 2013 @04:25AM (#5693597)
I have zero experience with Erlang, but judging by the benchmarks it is a very slow language for algorithmic stuff.

Rust should work. It's the right approach I think. I haven't used it yet, but I really hope it gains popularity and becomes a real alternative to C++.

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