deprecated delete and manual memory management

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 4/28/11 2:27 PM, Timon Gehr wrote:
> Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> Yes, the allocation and free performance could be improved, but it doesn't
>> change the fact that delete manually is not a huge performance gain, if at
>> all.
>
> My benchmark shows that in the current implementation manual deletion of GC memory
> is at least 15 times faster than leaving it up to the GC. (better cache behavior
> of the data unmeasured)

Thanks for the data point. Another good one would be comparing 
new/delete with malloc/free.

Andrei