On Friday, 23 May 2014 at 17:38:27 UTC, Etienne wrote:
On 2014-05-23 1:29 PM, Chris wrote:
I know that CPU's do a good bit of guessing. But that's not
the same
thing. If they err, they make up for it ("Ooops, it's not in
the cache!
Will get it from HD, just a nanosec!"). If the GC errs, how do
you make
up for it? Please educate me.
If the GC errs, worst case you lose a few bytes of free space
(Type 1 Error: skips collection for an object). If it weren't
already known, the worst case would be that destructors are not
guaranteed to be called.. but that's taken for granted now.
Worst case will never be access violation even through machine
learning
Fair enough. But what about programs that allocate a lot and run
for ages (a server app for example)?
