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Plenty did but none took a chunk out the C++ world that thrives on manual memory mgmt.

• pjmlp 7y ago
  The C++ world that thrives on manual memory management is usually "C compiled with C++ compilers". The rest of the C++ world has long moved into automatic memory management as best practices.
  • gmueckl 7y ago
    I don't think that your statement about C with C++ compilers holds true anymore. I have seen quite a few codebases that are definitely C++, but use bespoke memory management strategies where required. Pool allocators and allocation-only heaps are high on the list of things that are useful in this area, for various reasons.
    • bluGill 7y ago
      I'd call most of that C with classes.
      • gmueckl 7y ago
        As ooposed to what? This is the core of C++, even though feature creep has opened up the language to other coding styles and patterns.
  • jacobush 7y ago
    I should have said "not garbage collection" instead of manual memory management.
    • pjmlp 7y ago
      Reference counting, regardless how it is implemented (language primitives or library), is a garbage collection algorithm.
      • jacobush 7y ago
        This is stretching definitions imho. Ref counting does not stop the world or kick in when you don’t expect it to.