On Wednesday, 9 January 2013 at 09:01:46 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
On Wednesday, January 09, 2013 09:54:10 Mehrdad wrote:
You (or Walter I guess) are the first person I've seen who
calls
C++ garbage collected.
I sure wouldn't call that garbage collection - not when there's
no garbage
collector. But Walter has certainly called it that from time to
time.
I think that the other term that Paulo just used - automatic
memory management
- is far more accurate.
- Jonathan M Davis
I used to think that. But I was convinced otherwise when
considering carefully the cost and benefit involved. I so no
interest in make the difference anymore.
The technical solution you choose for GC imply some tradeoff, and
it amazing to see how the fact that you refcount or trace don't
matter that much. If you want a tracing collector to behave more
like reference counting, you'll need to add barriers, so you ends
up with the same cost to get the same benefit. Same goes for
variations around reference counting, or any mix of both.
