Bartosz Milewski seems to like D more than C++ now :)

[bearophile]

More from the blog post:

>It’s a common but false belief that reference counting (using 
>shared pointers in particular) is better than garbage 
>collection. There is actual research showing that the two 
>approaches are just two sides of the same coin. You should 
>realize that deleting a shared pointer may lead to an arbitrary 
>long pause in program execution, with similar performance 
>characteristics as a garbage sweep.<

That's an interesting paper, the symmetry between the two forms 
of garbage collection is a something to remember, but it doesn't 
contain benchmarks, you can't draw performance conclusions from 
that paper.

Bye,
bearophile