Runtime?

[Moritz Maxeiner via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 24 May 2017 at 14:26:42 UTC, Wulfklaue wrote:
> On Wednesday, 24 May 2017 at 10:34:02 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner 
> wrote:
>> Because the garbage collector (GC) allocates a sizable chunk 
>> of memory from the operating system at program startup, from 
>> which it then in turn allocates memory for you when you use 
>> things like dynamic closures, `new XYZ`, etc.
>>
> Well, that sounds just silly.

Before making such judgement you may want to consider the cost of 
system calls, how memory fragmentation affects a conservative GC, 
and why we cannot have a different kind of GC without 
unacceptable trade offs.

>
>> Yes, it is. It is the price we have to pay for having a GC. If 
>> the overhead bothers you, you might want to compare it with 
>> other garbage collected languages (such as Go).
>>
>
> Go is a different animal because of the concurrent GC.

Not the point.