On 4/8/12 12:21 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 4/6/2012 9:07 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
A few more samples of people's perception of the two languages:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3805302
At least we don't have this issue:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3814020
The D gc allocates smallish "chunks" as required, not one giant virtual
arena.
On reddit, too:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/rzd19/do_not_use_go_for_32bit_development/
I find that behavior quite surprising because, unlike imprecise GC, is
much easier to improve.
Anyhow, the recent discussions on Go clarify that we need to improve our
collector's precision, and pronto. The only thing that didn't yet make
the problem more painful in D is that D programs create a lot less garbage.
Andrei
