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More like, you're free to ignore the common-sense suggestion to examine the algorithms used as they pertain to your use case, just because someone once said "In
by EdHominem 10y ago
More like, you're free to ignore the common-sense suggestion to examine the algorithms used as they pertain to your use case, just because someone once said "In theory these two things are equivalent". But it won't help you once you hit the inevitable edge case.
Terminology is useful right up until it isn't. Resting on definitions rather than seeking proper descriptions is a great way to fail spectacularly.
- pjmlp 10y agoNot someone, the main language researchers in the field of memory management. Not a random dude on Internet.
- EdHominem 10y agoYou're doing exactly what I'm talking about, you're trying to show how the authority you consider authoritative is right, not trying to understand how in a very real sense, reference counting also is not garbage collection because it lacks some critical feature from someone else's point of view. If you're right, you're just some guy referencing an authority. Yay you. If you're wrong, you're totally ... all over the point of what someone else is saying. Instead of trying to force us to see how you're right, why not try to see how someone else isn't wrong?
- pjmlp 10y agoIt is not me that is right or wrong, it is the top researchers in the field of programming languages. The papers of computer science, written since the field exists, speak for themselves. One just has to read them.
- braveo 10y agoI agree with you, when people start trying to make these sorts of arguments I like to link the following video from Richard Feynman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45trtAfWhYg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45trtAfWhYg