Why many programmers don't like GC?
aberba
karabutaworld at gmail.com
Fri Jan 15 21:18:55 UTC 2021
On Friday, 15 January 2021 at 21:15:29 UTC, aberba wrote:
> On Friday, 15 January 2021 at 19:49:34 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
> wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Isn't it more theoretical/imaginary/hypothetical than something
> really measured from a real-world use case? Almost all large
> software use cases I've seen used mix and match.
>
> (BTW ARC is also another form of GC)
>
> Unreal game engine
> https://mikelis.net/garbage-collection-in-ue4-a-high-level-overview/
>
> Unity (of course)
> https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/UnderstandingAutomaticMemoryManagement.html
>
>> [...]
TL;DR:
> In summation, the garbage collection system is a robust part of
> Unreal Engine that affords C++ programmers a lot of safety from
> memory leaks, as well as convenience. With this high-level
> discussion, I was aiming to introduce the system at a
> conceptual level, and I hope I have achieved that.
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