Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 14:34:25 11/27/01
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Actually, you don't need GC for the Basic. Reference counting is sufficient there. And it definitely can be used in the real time code. Eugene On November 27, 2001 at 17:27:41, Dann Corbit wrote: >On November 27, 2001 at 17:02:59, Gareth McCaughan wrote: > >>On November 27, 2001 at 13:15:19, Dann Corbit wrote: >> >>> Garbage collection is unfathomably lame, and one of the chief faults of BASIC >>> and Java. It is a key reason why it can not be reliably used for real time >>> systems. >> >>The best garbage collectors of today are a *lot* better >>than they used to be. (They are mostly not found in Java >>VMs, though.) I'm not convinced automatic memory management >>is a great idea for writing a chess program, but for lots >>of purposes it seems to me to be a real win. On what grounds >>do you say it's unfathomably lame? > >It's not unfathomably lame for everything. It's unfathomably lame for real-time >systems, chess programs, and performance critical applications. > >Actually, I'm not a VB hater or a Java hater. Those would be my language of >choice for a quick front end application. But (for instance) if you were to >write a web server in Java, I think you are probably ready for the looney bin.
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