On 03/31/2015 05:51 AM, deadalnix wrote: > Yes, compiler to perform significantly better with GC than with other > memory management strategy. Ironically, I think that weighted a bit too > much in favor of GC for language design in the general case.
Why? Compilers use a lot of long-lived data structures (AST, metadata) which is particularly bad for a conservative GC. Any evidence to the contrary?
