On 10 April 2013 19:07, Dicebot <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wednesday, 10 April 2013 at 08:57:55 UTC, Manu wrote: > >> That sounds horribly non-deterministic. What if you have 256mb of ram, and >> no pagefile, and you fill it up till you have 1mb headroom spare? >> > > It is Erlang, it is not meant to be run on 256Mb RAM ;) It kind of solves > the issue of response latency for GC-enabled software on powerful > enterprise servers. Because with stop-the-world GC you can't do it, does > not matter how powerful your hardware is. > > Does not help game dev and small-scale embedded though, that for sure ;) >
Well there's always the standing question though, why is JVM and C# so much faster than D? They produce a squillion times more garbage than D, yet they're much much faster. I have come to accept the C# GC in less-intensive realtime software, it's not so bad.
