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My point wasn't that garbage collection is more efficient than people think, but that "manual" memory allocation is less efficient than people think.
by brlewis 9y ago
My point wasn't that garbage collection is more efficient than people think, but that "manual" memory allocation is less efficient than people think.
- pjmlp 9y agoTo the point that people used GC enabled systems programming languages to write full OSes[0], but as Joe Duffy puts on his last keynote, winning prejudice is an uphill battle. [0]- Done at Xerox PARC, DEC/Olivetti, ETHZ, Erlangen, MSR