print ubyte[] as (ascii) string
Adam D Ruppe
destructionator at gmail.com
Fri Jan 7 20:40:02 UTC 2022
On Friday, 7 January 2022 at 20:33:05 UTC, eugene wrote:
> * python guys have memory leaks
> * js guys have memory leaks
GC isn't actually there to prevent memory leaks. Its main job is
to guard against use-after-free memory corruption bugs.
Actually, technically, the paradigm is "infinite lifetime" and
the garbage collection is just there as a practical matter
because computers don't have infinite memory. They do a
reasonably good job on memory leaks too, but that's not the main
goal so they'd rather let memory leak than risk a use after free.
That's why D lets you do a hybrid approach easily: where the
lifetime is trivial, you can easily do it yourself to optimize
memory use. But when it isn't so obvious, you can use the GC to
play it safe at the cost of a lil more memory use.
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