OSNews article about C++09 degenerates into C++ vs. D discussion
Walter Bright
newshound at digitalmars.com
Sun Nov 19 22:42:04 PST 2006
Dave wrote:
> But the whole concern centers around two canards: a) GC is really slow
> and b) malloc/free offer deterministic performance for real-time
> appplications.
>
> I actually think that the best defense is dispelling those two myths. a)
> for D will come in time and b) is just plain not true for general
> purpose malloc/free implementations on modern operating systems.
If you talk to the people who actually do real time software, they don't
use malloc/free precisely because they are not deterministic. They
preallocate all data.
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