== Quote from Walter Bright ([email protected])'s article > dsimcha wrote: > > Yes, and similarly, when I write code to do some complicated processing of > > gene > > expression data or DNA sequences, and it uses RAM measured in gigabytes, I > > go to > > similar lengths to avoid GC for similar reasons. (That and false > > pointers.) It's > > not unique to server space. The reason I still use D instead of C or C++ is > > because, even if I'm using every hack known to man to avoid GC, it's still > > got > > insane metaprogramming capabilities, and it's still what std.range and > > std.algorithm are written in. > Generally, GC only works well if the size of your allocations is << the > size of the memory. Are you working with gigabyte sized allocations, or > just lots of smaller ones?
Little from column A, little from column B.
