== 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.

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