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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