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It's not even exclusive to GC'd languages. A toy raytracer I've written in the past got notably faster if I just didn't deallocate anything. Memory management i
by wongarsu 3y ago
It's not even exclusive to GC'd languages. A toy raytracer I've written in the past got notably faster if I just didn't deallocate anything. Memory management is expensive, and for unix-y software that runs on some input and then quits it can be worth it to just let the OS do the cleanup.