On 24/04/2011 00:43, bearophile wrote:
First, they impose a full word of overhead on each and every object, just
in case someone somewhere sometime wants to grab a lock on that object. What,
you say that you know that nobody outside of your code will ever get a pointer
to this object, and that you do your locking elsewhere, and you have a zillion
of these objects so you'd like them to take up as little memory as possible?
Sorry. You're screwed.
[I have not yet understood why D shared this Java design choice.]
Huh? D hasn't shared that design choice at all: unlike Java, D has
structs which can be used for lightweight data structures... Duh.
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Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer
