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When you are finding tricks to do manual memory management in a GC language its probably time to use a different language.

• mekkkkkk 9y ago
  Shit on the language all you want. Not only is it irrelevant, but also ill informed since a lot of performance critical things need to happen in the web environment. As such it is bound to happen in JS. No escaping it.
  • blueprint 9y ago
    > No escaping it. Except, perhaps, with our own hands. Web f.e. techs being fractured, redundant, incomplete, endlessly changed and bloated as they are is obviously extremely suboptimal. Better alternatives can easily exist. It's a disruption question. If the superior solution can survive through every obstacle it will face which tries to prevent people from hearing about its superiority and actually trying it, it will supplant the existing one.
  • saas_co_de 9y ago
    It is not "shitting" on any language to point out that there are many tools and using the right tool for the job at hand is the way to go. > a lot of performance critical things need to happen in the web environment Can you provide a single example of a real world web app that uses manual memory management as described in this article?
    • mekkkkkk 9y ago
      How is that relevant? There are definitely cases were it would be beneficial.