The name "garbage collection" itself lets you know that programs written using it are producing garbage. I could not agree more!
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Replying to @Jonathan_Blow
@Jonathan_Blow@cmuratori All software we interact with directly is by definition interactive, yes. But much software is cloud and backend.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @ElliotCuzzillo
@ElliotCuzzillo@Jonathan_Blow Just because you move shitty software off the user's machine doesn't make it any less shitty.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @cmuratori
@ElliotCuzzillo@Jonathan_Blow In fact it usually makes it even worse, because now you have net latency _and_ GC/VM/etc. latency!1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @cmuratori
@cmuratori@Jonathan_Blow The net latency is itself variable and frequently upwards of 150ms, which is bigger than much GC latency.3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @ElliotCuzzillo
@ElliotCuzzillo@Jonathan_Blow But that's only because you chose to compute shit in the cloud instead of doing it locally where it belongs.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @cmuratori
@ElliotCuzzillo@Jonathan_Blow _Most_ shit done in the cloud these days could easily have been done with sync + local compute.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
@ElliotCuzzillo @Jonathan_Blow Very few things actually rely on actually computing on multi-terabyte datasets per user.
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