Re: Haskell and the NGWS Runtime

[Ketil Malde]

"Manuel M. T. Chakravarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> A good analysis of were C# fits re Java and C++ is at
> 
>   http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/08/09/1612254&mode=thread

Wherein we read:

> One new feature that I mentioned already was that of copy-by-value
> objects. This seemingly small improvement is a potentially huge
> performance saver! With C++, one is regularly tempted to describe the
> simplest constructs as classes, and in so doing make it safer and
> simpler to use them. For example, a phone directory program might
> define a phone record as a class, and would maintain one PhoneRecord
> object per actual record. In Java, each and every one of those objects
> would be garbage collected!

Now, is this really such a big problem?  Is it a problem because of
Java's mark-and-sweep, and if so, couldn't you apply a better GC?

Isn't this just the old myth of GC being slow?

-kzm
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