Re: Opinion on managed memory and garbage collection
Re: Opinion on managed memory and garbage collection
- Subject: Re: Opinion on managed memory and garbage collection
- From: Michael Ash <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:13:01 -0400
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 2:09 AM, Quincey
Morris<email@hidden> wrote:
> On Jun 22, 2009, at 21:21, Michael Ash wrote:
>
>> IMO there are three major reasons to avoid GC at this point:
>
> Your reasons are clearly stated, rational, compelling ... and almost
> *entirely* anecdotal. That means what you say is a personal perspective --
> and I'm pretty sure that you know that. But there are 2 things that concern
> me:
>
> 1) You're very convincing, maybe more even than you intended, so I'm afraid
> others might take this perspective as the *only* perspective (aka "fact").
Just to be clear, the list of reasons was meant to simply elaborate
some disadvantages, not be an attempt to show that it should be
avoided. I can see how "three major reasons to avoid GC" can be
interpreted the other way, but such was not my intent.
Thanks for coming in on the other side.
Mike
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