On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 3:42 AM, Ian P. Cooke <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think that it's your number 3 that causes people to avoid garbage >> collection (at least it does to me). Even if you understand the cost of >> the kinds of collection you usually don't know when it's going to happen. >> > > I've been hearing that argument for 35 years now. During those 35 years, > I've heard only two or three design pattern scenarios in which (assuming a > properly implemented GC) the programmer had any business caring about this. > > > For those patterns do you consider the solution "if you care then don't > allocate any more memory"? In that case I definitely want a NoAlloc effect > :) > Maybe you want that, or maybe you just want NoDeferredCollection. Depending on your application, bounded region-based reclamation might be OK. shap
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