Subj : Re: OO compilers and efficiency
To   : comp.programming
From : Jon Harrop
Date : Sun Jul 24 2005 09:15 pm

Flavius Vespasianus wrote:
> Yeh, for SIMPLE things GC might be better for inexperienced programmers
> who are likely to screw up free/malloc, new/delete. For more complicated
> applications, GC is most often inappropriate.

GC is not well suited to applications with hard real-time constraints or
with tight resources (e.g. embedded applications). For all other
applications, GC is generally an excellent idea.

> Some day, if I have the time, I'd like to run tests on Java's garbage
> collector. Does anyone know if it can handle lost cyclic graphs? (Many GCs
> can't).

That information is now decades out of date.

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Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy
http://www.ffconsultancy.com

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