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A sample size of one makes for a worse rule of thumb then a trend based on hard reality. Speed is all that matters, I actually learned that from Graydon's blog
by autoreleasepool 11y ago
A sample size of one makes for a worse rule of thumb then a trend based on hard reality.
Speed is all that matters, I actually learned that from Graydon's blog:
http://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/233585.html#cutid1 http://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/233585.html#cutid1
Rust sacrificed the majority of its runtime and adopted C's memory model late in development so people wouldn't have to pay a performance cost or depend on confusing heap allocation semantics. That's why it has a really good chance at disrupting the embedded space.
- twic 11y agoThe enterprise software world didn't leap off C++ and onto Java because it was faster. They did it because it didn't segfault all the time. They then leapt to Perl and Python and Ruby because they didn't segfault all the time and seemed a lot faster to develop in. To the vast majority of people and organisations writing software, performance of the software, to within an order of magnitude, just isn't a big deal.
- autoreleasepool 11y agoWe aren't talking about enterprise software. It hasn't been mentioned once. You can't change the subject and then say I'm wrong. Obviously, higher level applications can and often should be implemented using garbage collected languages.