On Friday, 4 June 2021 at 13:32:37 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
On Friday, 4 June 2021 at 12:44:07 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:
GC won't go away tho. What might happen is more flexibility.
The GC-phobia is irrational.
The topic doesn't fit in this thread, but it isn't irrational.
You have to wait for all participating threads to be ready to
collect, so it isn't only about collection speed. In essence
you end up with some of the same issues as with cooperative
multitasking.
And it is also obvious that collection speed will drop as your
application grows and you start working with larger datasets.
So, you might initially think it is fine, but end up rewriting
your codebase because it only worked well with the simple
prototype you started with.
That's not a good strategy.
(but ok for batch programs)
You might be surprised, but it's actually not up to you what
topic fits or not.
I said GC-phobia is irrational, I did not say any criticism of it
is.
Obviously GC is good for some things and not good at all for
other things.
What *is* irrational is saying it has absolutely no place at all.
