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There is no significant difference between managed languages and something like zig in this category of programs, it is not a video codec, so I stand by my “no
by kaba0 4y ago
There is no significant difference between managed languages and something like zig in this category of programs, it is not a video codec, so I stand by my “no performance sensitive” claim. And especially because algorithms matters much much more, there is a good chance that a faster one can be implemented when you don’t have to care about whether that memory location is still alive or not.
- rtfeldman 4y agoAfter on-disk caching, the biggest performance improvements I've seen to compilers have been from changing how data structures are allocated/deallocated and laid out in memory. I haven't seen much opportunity to improve algorithm performance because which algorithms are applicable is heavily constrained by language design. In my experience the difference between something like Zig and a language with managed memory is large.