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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Yeah, I’ve had similar thoughts. The Java/OO mania of the ‘90s really created a lot of complacency about memory management.
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A lot of people thought that any GC—even a bad GC (e.g. ref counting)—was automatically better than manual 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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