> To describe the standard mechanism of garbage collection as a boneheaded > idea shows a total lack of awareness of first year Computer Science course > principles. That garbage collection has been refined and highly optimised > over the years is true; however it is a very necessary thing with modern > compiler technology. Less so in the days of Cobol
Why would I want to program in C if I can't use manual memory management? Of course not manual as in having to use custom malloc/free implementations. There is a great penalty to garbage collection in many instances and one should have the option of not using it. Now that I know this about the malloc/free implementation I don't think of my coworkers at my ex-company as madmen for having written their own malloc/free implementation for our product. _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
