In message <7xtymbzixt....@ruckus.brouhaha.com>, Paul Rubin wrote: > It's pretty well established by now that GC doesn't have any significant > speed penalty compared with manual allocation. It does consume more > memory, which is acceptable a lot of the time. It certainly leads to > more reliable programs.
And yet Java code, for example, doesn’t have a reputation for greater reliability compared to, say code written in Ada or C++, or even C. What is the Java runtime written in? C. Why not use Java, if there is no speed penalty in doing so? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
