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From: mo@prisma
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Re: Eiffel vs. C++ -- Let's drop the garbage collection arguments
Message-ID: <4300002@prisma>
Date: 10 Jul 89 10:00:00 GMT
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Re Garbage Collection:

An ounce of garbage prevention is worth pounds and pounds of
garbage collection.

If you design with garbage management in mind, you discover
you don't really miss a GC.  On the contrary, I've seen
lots of programs that work only BECAUSE the GC lets dangling
pointers continue to work.

This is actually quite humorous - the LISP folks have discovered
that after they get their algorithms right, if they rewrite their
inference grinders in C with good garbage prevetion and management,
they get dramatic speed improvements.  And here we have the C folks
going the other way.

Isn't life strange....