On 25 feb 2005, at 15:49, Marco van de Voort wrote:
- Critical parts are often handoptimized by using a lot of non GCed types
(like int), this is not a typical programming method for these
languages, but outright expert tuning.
Critical paths are also optimized in our compiler to not use ansistrings, because reference counting is also slow. The argument is not about whether or not we should make Pascal entirely GC'd, but about whether reference counting is better/worse than other garbage collection techniques if you have a significant amount of GC'd objects.
Jonas
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