You don't like GC? Do you?

[Dejan Lekic]

On Friday, 12 October 2018 at 16:26:49 UTC, Stanislav Blinov 
wrote:
> On Thursday, 11 October 2018 at 21:22:19 UTC, aberba wrote:
>> "It takes care of itself
>> -------------------------------
>> When writing a throwaway script...
>
> ...there's absolutely no need for a GC. In fact, the GC runtime 
> will only detract from performance.
>
>> What this means is that whenever I have disregarded a block of 
>> information, say removed an index from an array, then that 
>> memory is automatically cleared and freed back up on the next 
>> sweep. While the process of collection and actually checking
>
> Which is just as easily achieved with just one additional line 
> of code: free the memory.
>
>> Don't be a computer. Do more with GC.
>
> Writing a throwaway script there's nothing stopping you from 
> using mmap or VirtualAlloc. The "power" of GC is in the 
> language support for non-trivial types, such as strings and 
> associative arrays. Plain old arrays don't benefit from it in 
> the slightest.

What a bunch of nonsense! I used to talk like this some 20 years 
ago when all I saw in the computing world was C and C++...

Sure garbage collection is not for every project, depends what 
industry you are in I guess... In my case (business 
applications/services) I have never had the need to turn off 
garbage collection!

However, someone in the gaming industry, embedded or realtime 
systems would indeed need to turn off the GC...