On 5/08/2015 18:45, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote:
A la Commodore 64 garbage collection.... I still have bad dreams of that infamous C64 garbage collection... ;-)
Not that I'm saying garbage collection is bad... every language has overhead from tracking free and in use memory. Java defers that overhead to garbage collection time instead of doing it continuously.
What IS bad is when it needs to check which objects are still referenced, and half the address space is paged out.
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