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It's 2011, FFS. This kind of mindset is really self defeating in the long term. Sure, hand optimizing is better. Having a gazillion lines of shit legacy code
by sklivvz1971 16y ago
It's 2011, FFS.
This kind of mindset is really self defeating in the long term.
Sure, hand optimizing is better. Having a gazillion lines of shit legacy code and technical debt to fix because you hand optimized for the 90's, it's not so great.
I'll keep my GC and sip a Mohito on the beach, while Linus keeps on fixing Linux's "optimizations" ten years from now.
- hasenj 16y agoIt's already been ten years since he wrote that.
- gaius 16y agoYeah - mods can we edit a date into the title please?
- parfe 16y agoThe email was written a decade ago.
- shin_lao 16y agoThe alternative to a GC is not "hand optimizing". There are several patterns such as reference counted memory and RAII that are far from complex to use. If you've written any data intensive application you know that a GC doesn't solve memory issue. It's just a different strategy.
- sklivvz1971 16y agoIt's a strategy _I_don't_need_to_concern_with_ :-)