Disable GC entirely

[Manu]

On 10 April 2013 19:07, Dicebot <m.strashun at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday, 10 April 2013 at 08:57:55 UTC, Manu wrote:
>
>> That sounds horribly non-deterministic. What if you have 256mb of ram, and
>> no pagefile, and you fill it up till you have 1mb headroom spare?
>>
>
> It is Erlang, it is not meant to be run on 256Mb RAM ;) It kind of solves
> the issue of response latency for GC-enabled software on powerful
> enterprise servers. Because with stop-the-world GC you can't do it, does
> not matter how powerful your hardware is.
>
> Does not help game dev and small-scale embedded though, that for sure ;)
>

Well there's always the standing question though, why is JVM and C# so much
faster than D?
They produce a squillion times more garbage than D, yet they're much much
faster. I have come to accept the C# GC in less-intensive realtime
software, it's not so bad.
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