It's weird how today we have memory in gigabytes and multiple core but we try to avoid virtual calls, care about object sizes and stack allocate, but the everything virtual, everything on the heap, refcounting everything designs were made with megabytes of RAM and a single core.https://twitter.com/kneecaw/status/970842293837103104 …
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If manual is "make sure you don’t call free() too much or too little or you’re dead", isn’t a GC strictly better?
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Yeah, I guess “manual” isn’t the right term. What I mean is “a human paying attention to memory management”.
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Startups could get funded by riding “object oriented programming” buzzwords. NeXT, for example (Objective-C is a similar system to XPCOM).
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