Adding Java and C++ to the MQTT benchmarks or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Garbage Collector

[Paulo Pinto]

On Wednesday, 8 January 2014 at 11:35:21 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
> http://atilanevesoncode.wordpress.com/2014/01/08/adding-java-and-c-to-the-mqtt-benchmarks-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-garbage-collector/

Thanks for sharing your experience.

It goes with my experience moving enterprise server code from C++ 
to JVM/.NET land.

What people forget about C++ smart pointers vs 
Objective-C/Rust/ParaSail ones is that without compiler support, 
you just spend too much time doing the said operations.

Over the holidays I spent some time researching about the 
Mesa/Cedar system developed at Xerox PARC. Cedar was already a GC 
enabled systems programming language, strong typed.

Quite remarkable what the system could do as a GUI desktop 
workstation in the early 80's and we are still fighting in 2014 
to get GC enabled systems programming languages accepted in the 
mainstream.

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Paulo