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I can't imagine how there could be. All a GC does is free the programmer from worrying about memory leaks/manual memory management themselves (sort of). It does

by eximius 11y ago

I can't imagine how there could be. All a GC does is free the programmer from worrying about memory leaks/manual memory management themselves (sort of). It doesn't have any effect on computability.

lgunsch 11y ago
It does have a significant impact on performance. Especially for real time operating systems, micro controlles, and other embedded systems. There for sure exists more then zero problems where garbage collection would be a worse solution then manual memory management. Even if you leave kernel development out of the equation.
pif 11y ago
> All a GC does is free the programmer from ... Not only this. It also forces the programmer to implement RAII by hand.
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ben0x539 11y ago
There's some difference between "it's computable" and "it's practical to write a program that does it in a reasonably simple and maintainable way", though. If you have GC, it can free up a bunch of your complexity budget that you need elsewhere.