Eliminate class allocators and deallocators?
Andrei Alexandrescu
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Wed Oct 7 11:26:17 PDT 2009
dsimcha wrote:
> == Quote from Andrei Alexandrescu (SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org)'s article
>> It is a bad idea because distinguishing between release of (expensive)
>> resources from dangerous memory recycling is the correct way to obtain
>> deterministic resource management within the confines of safety.
>
> This is based on two faulty assumptions:
>
> 1. Memory is cheap. (Not if you are working with absurd amounts of data).
> 2. Garbage collection is never a major bottleneck. (Sometimes it's a worthwhile
> tradeoff to add a few manual delete statements to code and sacrifice some safety
> for making the GC run less often.)
malloc.
Andrei
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