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Where are the measurements comparing throughput of tracing GCs and manual memory management? I'm aware of how incredibly hard this area is to measure, but it's
by hyperpape 3y ago
Where are the measurements comparing throughput of tracing GCs and manual memory management? I'm aware of how incredibly hard this area is to measure, but it's a shame that the state of mainstream discussion is "most people just assume GC implies slow, but then again a handful of people say it's not."
- pron 3y agoGiven that the no-GC-by-default market is ~10% of the global software market [1] with no signs of shift in either direction over the past couple of decades, which sounds about right to me (considering the percentage of programs that need to run in memory-constrained environment or must have precise control over memory), it seems that the number of those who may benefit significantly from a different choice is small and so it doesn't look like anyone wants or needs to be convinced of anything. "GC languages" already command ~90% of the market and have little to gain from such a small market of potential converts, and the others aren't trying or succeeding in increasing their market share, so who cares given the small stakes? [1]: https://www.devjobsscanner.com/blog/top-8-most-demanded-programming-languages/ https://www.devjobsscanner.com/blog/top-8-most-demanded-prog...