On Sunday, 22 February 2015 at 00:43:47 UTC, Manu wrote:
On 22 February 2015 at 05:20, JN via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=02202015a
Interesting...
Apple is dropping GC in favor of automatic reference counting.
What are the
benefits of ARC over GC? Is it just about predictability of
resource
freeing? Would ARC make sense in D?
D's GC is terrible, and after 6 years hanging out in this
place, I
have seen precisely zero development on the GC front. Nobody
can even
imagine, let alone successfully implement a GC that covers
realtime
use requirements.
I lack the skills to be hired by Aonix, but the military seem to
think it is ok to put a real time JVM taking care of missile
systems.
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Lockheed_Martin_Selects_Aonix_PERC_Virtual_Machine_For_Aegis_Weapon_System_999.html
They surely have considered the situation "GC was called => where
did the missile go".
It doesn't get more real time than that.
