On Wednesday, 13 January 2021 at 18:58:56 UTC, Marcone wrote:
I've always heard programmers complain about Garbage Collector GC. But I never understood why they complain. What's bad about GC?
Most people get to know GC trough Java or C#. Those languages promote the use of OOP and they say that you dont need to worry about memory management. The result is that people write code that doesnt utilize CPU caches effectively and makes a lot of temporary allocations. For example people at Microsoft implemented json parser in C# and it would allocate 8GB of memory for every 1GB parsed. Add to that virtual machines and you find that programs written in those languages run like they are coded in molasse.
People with experience of those programs conclude that is all because of GC. And its simple explanation for simple people.
