Do you use D's GC?
H. S. Teoh
hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx
Wed Aug 4 22:42:56 UTC 2021
On Wed, Aug 04, 2021 at 09:58:58PM +0000, Brian Tiffin via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Tuesday, 3 August 2021 at 19:33:27 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> > BTW, regardless of what language you use, or use GC or not, there's
> > no way to write a high performance program without being cognizant
> > of its memory consumption patterns.
>
> Hear, hear.
>
> There have been others, but this one hit me like lightning.
>
> I'm now talking to you, and about you to everyone else, Walter. :)
>
> I'm still fairly new here. Does anyone have a Walter's Wisdoms file?
> Add this one. An ageless wisdom, well spoken.
Here the ones I've added to my own quotes file:
I've been around long enough to have seen an endless parade of
magic new techniques du jour, most of which purport to remove
the necessity of thought about your programming problem. In the
end they wind up contributing one or two pieces to the
collective wisdom, and fade away in the rearview mirror. --
Walter Bright
Making non-nullable pointers is just plugging one hole in a
cheese grater. -- Walter Bright
Here's a funny one:
My father told me I wasn't at all afraid of hard work. I could
lie down right next to it and go to sleep. -- Walter Bright
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