More radical ideas about gc and reference counting
Francesco Cattoglio via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat May 10 00:42:03 PDT 2014
On Saturday, 10 May 2014 at 07:08:04 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
> On 5/9/14, 11:27 PM, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> ARC overhead would have no meaningful impact on performance,
>> GC may
>> potentially freeze execution. I am certain I would never
>> notice ARC
>> overhead on a profiler, and if I did, there are very simple
>> methods to
>> shift it elsewhere in the few specific circumstances it
>> emerges.
>
> This is very, very, very wrong. -- Andrei
I've seen this discussion ("it's almost performance-free", "it's
a performance killer") so many times, I can't even say who has
the burden of proof anymore.
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