Escaping the Tyranny of the GC: std.rcstring, first blood

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 9/22/14, 12:34 PM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
> 22-Sep-2014 01:45, Ola Fosheim Grostad пишет:
>> On Sunday, 21 September 2014 at 17:52:42 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
>>> to use non-atomic ref-counting and have far less cache pollution (the
>>> set of fibers to switch over is consistent).
>>
>> Caches are not a big deal when you wait for io.
>>
>>>> Go also check fiber
>>>> stack size... But maybe Go should not be considered a target.
>>>
>>> ??? Just reserve more space. Even Go dropped segmented stack.
>>> What Go has to do with this discussion at all BTW?
>>
>> Because that is what you are competing with in the webspace.
>
> E-hm Go is hardly the top dog in the web space. Java and JVM crowd like
> (Scala etc.) are apparently very sexy (and performant) in the web space.
> They try to sell it as if it was all the rage though.
>
> IMO Go is hardly an interesting opponent to compete against. In pretty
> much any use case I see Go is somewhere down to 4-th+ place to look at.

I agree. It does have legs however. We should learn a few things from 
it, such as green threads, dependency management, networking libraries. 
Also Go shows that good quality tooling makes a lot of a difference. And 
of course the main lesson is that templates are good to have :o).

Andrei