On Tuesday, 31 March 2015 at 19:19:23 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
On 03/31/2015 05:51 AM, deadalnix wrote:
Yes, compiler to perform significantly better with GC than
with other
memory management strategy. Ironically, I think that weighted
a bit too
much in favor of GC for language design in the general case.
Why? Compilers use a lot of long-lived data structures (AST,
metadata)
which is particularly bad for a conservative GC.
Any evidence to the contrary?
The graph is not acyclic, which makes it even worse for anything
else.
