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Kind of nuts that he worked on Jemalloc for over a decade while having personal preference for garbage collection. I'm surprised he doesn't have more regret.
by skeptrune 1y ago
Kind of nuts that he worked on Jemalloc for over a decade while having personal preference for garbage collection. I'm surprised he doesn't have more regret.
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- kstrauser 1y agoWhy are those two mutually exclusive? I'd think that a high performance allocator would be especially crucial in the implementation of a fast garbage collected language. For example, in Python you can't alloc(n * sizeof(obj)) to reserve that much contiguous space for n objects. Instead, you use the builtins which isolate you from that low-level bookkeeping. Those builtins have to be pretty fast or performance would be terrible.
- procaryote 1y agoPython performance is terrible though...
- fermentation 1y agoA job is a job