Adding Java and C++ to the MQTT benchmarks or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Garbage Collector

[Walter Bright]

On 1/9/2014 3:40 AM, "Ola Fosheim Grøstad" 
<ola.fosheim.grostad+dlang at gmail.com>" wrote:
> On Thursday, 9 January 2014 at 09:55:42 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> A GC does not prevent such techniques.
>
> No, but programmers gravitate towards less work... If alloc is transparent and
> free is hidden... You gain a lot from not being explicit, but you get more
> allocations overall.


GC doesn't even make those techniques harder.

I can't see any merit to the idea that GC makes for excessive allocation.