On Monday, 9 September 2013 at 16:12:00 UTC, Brian Rogoff wrote:
On Sunday, 8 September 2013 at 11:48:06 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
Am 08.09.2013 13:24, schrieb Russel Winder:
On Sun, 2013-09-08 at 00:35 +0200, Paulo Pinto wrote:
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To make it more clear, the ML family of languages, Pascal
family of
languages, even JVM and .NET environments have native
compilers available. You just have to look for them.
IMO, D has more potential as a native code compilation target
than Java, C#, and ML, at least in theory, because I should be
able to control and even disable garbage collection. So, even
users of managed languages may want to examine D.
-- Brian
I really hate the term managed language coined by Microsoft with
.NET's introduction.
What makes a language managed?
A GC? Then D is also managed.
Compiling to a VM? Then Java is native when I use the Excelsior
JET compiler.
Strong typing? Then Ada is managed.
One type of consulting projects we do is port C++ code to
.NET/JVM environments.
I can assure that given the proper expertise how to code in a GC
friendly way, GC is no a bottleneck than having to write special
tuned versions of malloc()/free().
In D's case it is currently an issue, given that the current
implementation is not as advanced as what is available in other
runtimes.
--
Paulo
