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It's easy to get it wrong (Score:2)

by nicholas (3034)

What's really sad is that GC algorithms are very well known and quite easy to use; the Boehm GC comes to mind immediately.
What you're missing from this analysis is that swapping to mark & sweep GC, particularly a conservative GC such as Boehm, means that you no longer have any guarantee of the timing of destruction of objects, or even that they'll be (formally) destroyed at all, before program exit. So many of the existing uses of DESTROY in Perl would go out of the window, and the paradigm of Resource [wikipedia.org]
- Re:It's easy to get it wrong (Score:2)
  
  by petdance (2468) <andy@petdance.com> on 2010.06.24 10:06 (#72117) Homepage Journal
  
  What you're missing from this analysis
  Using the word "analysis" here gives far too much credit. It is not "analysis" to say "Can't you just do a new GC?"
  
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