Douglas Roberts wrote:
I do feel compelled to point out that garbage collectors are extremely
heavy weight language components, and are one of the features of Java
that prevent it from competing with C++ for large-scale computational
efficiency.
You can believe what you want, but see figures 4, 5, 6 of the URL below
for a conservative garbage collector outperforming malloc in C. Even in
benchmarks where malloc is faster, it's within a factor of two.
http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2000/HPL-2000-165.html
Similar results 15 years ago:
ftp://ftp.cs.colorado.edu/pub/techreports/zorn/CU-CS-665-93.ps.Z
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