Andrei Alexandrescu: > A few more samples of people's perception of the two languages: > > http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3805302
Some of the comments in that ycombinator thread are a bit unnerving. There is a similar thread on Reddit too: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/rvwj0/go_severe_memory_problems_on_32bit_systems/ Two quotes from the Reddit page: >The Boehm GC attempts to mitigate this by detecting false references to free >blocks and blacklisting before they become references to live blocks, >restricting their use to low-impact situations. Also Boehm supports typed allocation(gc_typed.h/GC_malloc_explicitly_typed) where you tell GC that pointers are located only at specific offsets and everything other should be ignored.< >tag data as no-pointers and allocate in separate section. The garbage >collector can avoid scanning this section, with reduces collection time as >well as the number of false positives.< Bye, bearophile
