Garbage Collector

[deadalnix via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 20:22:21 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
> On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 19:39:59 UTC, Konstantin wrote:
>> Well I’m not sure about the 5% (MS says their write barrier 
>> overhead is comparable to the cost of a simple method call, 
>> namely 6.4ns: 
>> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms973852.aspx), but 
>> yeah, there’s some tradeoff, for having a good GC.
>
> Even 1% overhead is unacceptable. Again, it's not reasonable 
> for a systems language to have people pay for things they're 
> not using.
>
> Write barriers will come to D over Walter's dead body.
>

Simple exercise. You have 100 000 servers. Your application 
suddenly become 1% slower. How angry is your CFO when he 
discovers how many new machines he needs to buy ?