On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 1:22 AM, Basile Starynkevitch <bas...@starynkevitch.net> wrote:
> I do think that the fact that some other big free software starts by > explaining how to > manage their memory is significant. Storage management is important. However, I believe it is a mistake to focus only on that or to start the presentation of a project with that. No matter how popular it is. > I also agree with you that GCC architecture is messy, and that scares > newscomer a lot. > Yes, but the way we improve it isn't, in my opinion, adding more GC. First we would like to remove complexity, and I do not think we should start by focusing on storage management until we get a clearer idea about lifetime of data structures we manipulate and how they mesh. We might find out (as I suspect) that the builtin GC of C (or C++) is remarkable at the job, provided we have a design that makes the lifetime obvious and take advantage of it.
