On 9/8/2010 6:20 PM, Paul Rubin wrote:
What tricks on tricks? Even the fanciest GC's are orders of magnitude
less complicated than any serious database, optimizing compiler, OS
kernel, file system, etc. Real-world software is complicated. Get used
to that fact, and look for ways to manage the complexity and keep
complex programs safe. Choosing to program with unsafe methods because
you wish the complexity didn't exist is just deluded.
Garbage collectors are difficult from a theoretical standpoint,
and it's very difficult to make a correct concurrent garbage collector
without using formal methods. But garbage collectors are not large
pieces of code.
John Nagle
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