On Thursday, 9 March 2017 at 16:12:46 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
On Thursday, 9 March 2017 at 11:52:42 UTC, thedeemon wrote:
On Wednesday, 8 March 2017 at 20:00:54 UTC, aberba wrote:
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This is mostly a psychological effect of C++ folks having
aversion to any GC.
It is interesting to have watched this debate over the years.
Bjarne S. responded to the Java crowd by embracing the GC. He
still has on his FAQ: "If you want automatic garbage
collection, there are good commercial and public-domain garbage
collectors for C++. For applications where garbage collection
is suitable, C++ is an excellent garbage collected language
with a performance that compares favorably with other garbage
collected languages."
C++11 also defined a GC ABI for those "commercial and
public-domain garbage collectors".
Section 20.7.4, Pointer safety.
