On Thursday, 17 July 2014 at 19:58:32 UTC, Tobias Müller wrote:
"Paulo Pinto" <[email protected]> wrote:
...
Personally, I don't believe anyone is able to reason properly
about
manual memory management, unless they wrote 100% of their
code, and don't
work in more than one codebase.
IMO manual memory management is quite easy. In 99% of all cases
ownership
is clear to trivial.
But maybe this is just because I usually write C++ and
ownership is crucial
in C++. Maybe it's more difficult if your accustomed to a GC.
Tobi
When I started coding BASIC and Z80 were at the rage at home
computers, so even though I favour RC/GC over manual memory
management, I do have lots of experience with manual memory
management.
Specially in enterprise teams with high attrition having more
than 30 developers, where no one can really tell who owns what.
And to top that, in one project we even had funny macros
converting between handles and pointers, our own MMU, so to speak.
So I have my doubts when many developers work in the same code
base that ownership is trivial.
--
Paulo
